Tom Paine, Freedom's Apostle

by Leo Gurko

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 069082890X
• ISBN13: 9780690828900
• Release Date: January 1957
• Publisher: Thomas Y. Crowell
• Length: 213 Pages
• Weight: 0.94 lbs.