'a comprehensive and thoughtful work that deserves to be not only in academic libraries but also those of anyone seriously interested in Thomas Paine... [it] must surely become one of the most important of Paine biographies and deserves a wide readership' Journal of Radical History 'brings out the important points in Paine's career ... admirable.' The Eighteenth-Century Intelligencer

• Preface, W. A. Speck; Chapter 1 England, W. A. Speck; Chapter 2 Common Sense, W. A. Speck; Chapter 3 ‘The Times that Tried Men’s Souls’, W. A. Speck; Chapter 4 Building Bridges, W. A. Speck; Chapter 5 Rights of Man, W. A. Speck; Chapter 6 The Age of Reason, W. A. Speck; Chapter 7 Theophilanthropist, W. A. Speck; Chapter 8 American Citizen?, W. A. Speck; Chapter 9 New York, W. A. Speck;