title: Thomas Paine's Rights of Man (Books That Changed the World)
author:  Christopher Hitchens 
description: "A better case can be made for the claim that Thomas Paine's Rights of Man actually affected history than for other books so far published in the series, and Christopher Hitchens makes it with characteristic verve and style. An engaging account of Paine's life and times [that is] well worth reading"<br /><br />"Hitchens is at his characteristically incisive best in writing of that champion of the oppressed, coadjutor of two revolutions, and eloquent proponent of the rights of man, Thomas Paine."
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  Thomas Paine's Rights of Man  
  _A Biography_
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Current and forthcoming titles in the Books That Changed the World series:
  
  
  _The Bible_ by Karen Armstrong
  
  
  Machiavelli's _The Prince_ by Philip Bobbitt
  
  
  Plato's _Republic_ by Simon Blackburn
  
  
  Darwin's _Origin of Species_ by Janet Browne
  
  
  _The Qur 'an_ by Bruce Lawrence
  
  
  Homer's _The Iliad and the Odyssey_ by Alberto Manguel
  
  
  _On The Wealth of Nations_ by P. J. O'Rourke
  
  
  Clausewitz's _On War_ by Hew Strachan
  
  
  Marx's _Das Kapital_ by Francis Wheen
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  # Thomas Paine's Rights of Man
  
  
  _A Biography_
  
  
  **CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS**
  
  
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  Copyright (C) 2006 by Christopher Hitchens
  
  
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