Tom Paine, Revolutionary (Masterplots II: Juvenile and Young Adult Biography Series)
At a glance:
- Author: Olivia Coolidge
- First Published: 1969
- Time of Work: 1737–1809
- Setting: England, America, and France
- Principal Characters: Thomas Paine, Benjamin Franklin, Silas Deane, Thomas Jefferson, Robert Morris, Gouverneur Morris, Napoleon Bonaparte
- Genres: Nonfiction, Biography
- Subjects: Politics, Revolutionaries, France or French people, Revolutions, England or English people, American Revolution, Politicians, French Revolution, Biography, Propaganda
- Locales: France, United States, England
Form and Content
Tom Paine, Revolutionary is a biography of a significant figure of early American history. Olivia Coolidge describes the major historical events of Paine’s life, focusing on his career as a writer and as a champion of the revolutionary ideas of the Enlightenment.
Paine was born in 1737 in Thetford, England. After leaving grammar school at the age of thirteen, he was apprenticed to his father, a corset maker. Finding the corset business particularly boring, he left home in pursuit of a more productive career, moving from town to town for several...
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