Thomas Paine. Apostle of freedom.

First paperback edition. Contents: Abbreviations; List of illustrations; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Beginnings (Thetford and Beyond; 'Poverty begets meanness); Liberty and the republic ('Common sense will tell us'; Summer Soldiers and Sunshine Patriots; Financial Plagues and Silas Deane; A Hired Pen; Invention and Finance; France; Burke's Response: 'The Swinish Multitude'; The 'inherent, indefeasible' Rights of Man); Social responsibility and illuminist spirituality ('The most determined champion of republican principles'; The Revolution Declines; The Two-Edged Sword of Liberty; The Age of Reason; 'Some very ignorant and stupid pretenders' Justice, Agrarian Style; Illuminism and Nicolas de Bonneville); Home in America (Bitter Battles with Federalists; Final Days; Assessment); Notes; Bibliography; Chronology; Index.