The Trouble With Tom: The Strange Afterlife And Times of Thomas Paine
New York, New York, U.S.A. Bloomsbury Pub Plc USA, 2005. First. Hardcover. First printing. AS NEW IN DUST JACKET. Hardcover, 278 pps. with bibliographical essay. One of the more offbeat works on one of the founding fathers, yet highly enjoyable, the story of what became of the bones of American pamphleteer Thomas Paine. Paine was the author of the single most influential political work, "Common Sense" but by the time of his death in 1809 had become a villified figure due to his rejection of all organized religion. Even the Quakers refused him a burial place and he body was placed in an unmarked garve in a field in Westchester County, New York, across the road from a tavern. At that point, the strange odyssey of his bones begins. As New / As New. Item #D9366B
ISBN: 1582345023
Price: $14.95