ENGLISH

The Trouble with Tom

By Collins , Paul

Book information

Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
ISBN
9781408820636, 1408820633
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
2 MB (2358338 bytes)
Pages
1 online bron (288 pagina's, 2370153 bytes)\0
Time added
2020-07-26 19:24:52

Description

"The author of Common Sense and The Rights of Man, a radical on the run from the law in London, a founding father of the United States of America, a senator of revolutionary France, Thomas Paine alone claims a key role in the development of three modern democracies. He was a walking revolution in human form - the most dangerous man alive. But in death Paine's story turns truly bizarre - his bones were taken from New York to London and eventually disappeared. In Paris, London and New York, in bars, grocers, shops and national libraries, crossing paths along the way with, among others, Benjamin Franklin, George Washington, William Cobbett, Walt Whitman, Charles Darwin and even Lord Bryon, Paul Collins sets himself the challenge of finding out what happened to Paine's bones, and ends up telling one of the most extraordinary stories of modern history."

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