Tom Paine, Freedom's Apostle
By Leo Gurko.
Description
From the jacketflap:"These are the times that try men's souls..."It was September 1776; and by the flickering light of an army campfire, a man sat on a hogshead writing.His name was Tom Paine. This dramatic biography is his story. In 1774, totally unknown to the world, he arrived in America from England with only the clothes on his back, his one tangible asset a letter of introduction from Benjamin Franklin. Then he published his pamphlet, Common Sense; and the name, Tom Paine, became not only a household word from Massachusetts to the Carolinas, but a name that aroused viole...
ISBN(s)
069082890X, 9780690828900
