A careless gaoler marked his door with the sign that the occupant was to be executed, but luckily for Paine the door was open at the time, and so the mark appeared on the inside where no one could see it. Moving to France, Paine became influential in their revolution too, although he almost fell victim to The Terror of Robespierre’s police.
Hitchens covers Paine’s life from his early days working as an excise man in England before moving to America where he made influential friends and enemies and where he lit the fire that caused the Americans to overthrow their colonial power.
Thomas 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 cornerstone of his reputation.Ĭhristopher Hitchens demonstrates how Thomas Paine’s book forms the philosophical framework for the United States of America.
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