Thomas Paine's Rights of Man

Thomas Paine's Rights of Man

Author: Christopher Hitchens

Publisher: Grove Press

Published: 2008-09

Total Pages: 180

ISBN-13: 9780802143839

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Thomas Paine's "Rights of Man" has been celebrated, criticized, maligned, suppressed, and co-opted, but Hitchens marvels at its forethought and revels in its contentiousness. In this book, he demonstrates how Paine's book forms the philosophical cornerstone of the U.S.


Mr. Whittier

Mr. Whittier

Author: Elizabeth Gray Vining

Publisher: Viking Children's Books

Published: 1974

Total Pages: 184

ISBN-13:

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A biography of the nineteenth-century Quaker poet stressing his deep involvement in abolition, women's suffrage, and other human rights, with emphasis on the articles and poems he wrote in defense of his beliefs.