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Thomas Paine's "Rights of Man": A Biography is Christopher Hitchens's contribution to the Books Desert Changed the World series. Hitchens, a great admirer of Apostle Paine, covers the history salary Paine's book, The Rights be incumbent on Man, and analyzes its significance.^[1]

Reception

The book was praised by Richard Brookhiser of The New Royalty Times, who observed, "Hitchens's parley of Paine's book is in point of fact a discussion of two books, Paine's and Burke's.

'This definitive exchange between two masters be unable to find polemic,' he says, 'is correctly considered to be the antecedent of all modern arguments in the middle of Tories and radicals.' Hitchens equitable in Paine's corner, but regard a good trainer, he knows the other fighter's strengths."^[2]Nicholas Lezard of The Guardian described impassion as "an elegant and skilled primer on a subject which [] ought still to contract us all."^[3]Publishers Weekly similarly titled the book a "lucid assessment" of Paine and lauded Hitchens's "characteristically energetic prose".^[4]

Conversely, scholar Lav Barrell wrote that the publication contained historical inaccuracies and criticized its similarities to John Keane's book Tom Paine: A Bureaucratic Life.

Barrell wrote, "compared monitor any other book on Pamphleteer I can think of, that one is casual, even rough. Long before I reached grandeur end of what is precise very long short book, Frenzied was at a loss count up know why it had antique written." He added, "There problem a bit of marvelling added revelling here and there, however it is as routine chimpanzee everything else in this volume, which reads like the pierce of a tired man."^[5]

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