Rights of Man

Easton Press (1st thus, 1979). Gray leather with gilt title, decorations, and edges. Moire endpapers, slightly faded around edges. Gray ribbon marker attached. Prior owner's Easton Press bookplate inside front cover, plus blind embossed seal on title page. Hubbed spine. Archival quality paper.

Illustrated by Lynd Ward. Introduction by Howard Fast.

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Rights of Man (1791), a book by Thomas Paine, including 31 articles, posits that popular political revolution is permissible when a government does not safeguard the natural rights of its people. Using these points as a base it defends the French Revolution against Edmund Burke's attack in "Reflections on the Revolution in France" (1790).

Thomas Paine (1737 - 1809) was an English-American political activist, philosopher, political theorist, and revolutionary. One of the Founding Fathers of the United States, he authored the two most influential pamphlets at the start of the American Revolution, and he inspired the rebels in 1776 to declare independence from Britain. His ideas reflected Enlightenment-era rhetoric of transnational human rights. He has been called "a corsetmaker by trade, a journalist by profession, and a propagandist by inclination".

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