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050	1	4	_aJC177.H5 _bH58 2006
082	0	0	_a323.5 _222
100	1		_aHitchens, Christopher.
245	1	0	_aThomas Paine's Rights of man : _ba biography / _cChristopher Hitchens.
260			_aNew York : _bAtlantic Monthly Press : _bDistributed by Publishers Group West, _cc2006.
300			_a158 p. ; _c21 cm.
490	1		_aBooks that changed the world
500			_aOriginally published: London : Atlantic Books, 2006.
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [143]-146) and index.
520			_aThomas Paine was one of the greatest advocates of freedom in history, and his Declaration of the Rights of Man, first published in 1791, is the key to his reputation. Inspired by his outrage at Edmund Burke's attack on the French Revolution, Paine's text is a passionate defense of man's inalienable rights. Since its publication, Rights of Man has been celebrated, criticized, maligned, suppressed, and co-opted. But here, polemicist and commentator Christopher Hitchens marvels at its forethought and revels in its contentiousness. Hitchens, a political descendant of the great pamphleteer, demonstrates how Paine's book forms the philosophical cornerstone of the United States, and how, "in a time when both rights and reason are under attack," Thomas Paine's life and writing "will always be part of the arsenal on which we shall need to depend." (New Statesman)--From publisher description.
600	1	0	_aPaine, Thomas, _d1737-1809. _tRights of man.
830		0	_aBooks that changed the world (New York, N.Y.)
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