About The Book

Among Howard Fast’s historical fiction, Citizen Tom Paine—one of America’s all-time best-sellers—occupies a special place, for it restored to a generation of readers the vision of Paine’s revolutionary passion as the authentic roots of our national beginnings. Fast gives us “a vivid picture of Paine’s mode of writing, idiosyncrasies, and character—generous, nobly unselfish, moody, often dirty, frequently drunken, a revolutionist by avocation.”—Library Journal

Praise

“Howard Fast has taken a figure out of American history and by the inten­sity of his emotional sympathy and intellectual response has made him into a living man . . . . Mr. Fast’s story of Tom Paine is a brilliant piece of fictional biography.” –New York Herald Tribune Books

“Mr. Fast’s work grows in power. This book is not comfortable, but like a hard bitter wind.” –The Christian Science Monitor

“The virtues of this fictional life story are its timeliness, its inspirational force, its sincerity, and its very great dignity.” –Chicago Sun

“A work of such vitality and such distinction that the highest praise seems a bit like gilding the lily.” –Boston Herald