Thomas Paine's Rights of Man

A “brief but potent” appreciation of one of the most influential and revolutionary works of political thought “mixing biography, criticism and philosophy” ( Los Angeles Times ).   Christopher Hitchens, the #1 New York Times –bestselling author of God Is Not Great , has been called a Tom Paine for our times. In this addition to the Books that Changed the World Series, Hitchens vividly introduces Paine and his Declaration of the Rights of Man , the world’s foremost defense of democracy.