The Trouble with Tom: The Strange Afterlife and Times of Thomas Paine. Dieser Artikel ist nicht verfügbar.
Sprache: Englisch
Verlag: Bloomsbury USA, 2009
- Softcover
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- Titel
- The Trouble with Tom: The Strange Afterlife and Times of Thomas Paine
- Autor
- Collins, Paul
- Verlag
- Bloomsbury USA
- Erscheinungsjahr
- 2009
- Zustand
- Good
- Einband
- Softcover
- Sprache
- Englisch
- ISBN-10
- 1582346135
- ISBN-13
- 9781582346137
"[A] quixotic, mischievous and often hilarious work
Part travelogue, part memoir and part historical mystery, this book reads like a wry, witty novel and offers a delicious twist at the end."Publishers Weekly
Paul Collins takes us on a strange odyssey down the forgotten roads of history as he hunts for the bones of Tom Paineexhumed and then lost, and now scattered around the globe. Crossing the paths of everyone from Walt Whitman and Charles Darwin to sex reformers and feral monkeys, this colorful search for a founding father's body simultaneously excavates the very soul of democracy.
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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor
Paul Collins is an assistant professor of English at Portland State University and the author of Sixpence House, The Trouble with Tom, Not Even Wrong, and Banvard's Folly. His work has appeared in Smithsonian, the New York Times, and Slate. He edits the Collins Library imprint of McSweeney's Books and appears regularly on NPR's Weekend Edition as the show's resident literary detective.
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