Citizen Tom Paine

From the publisher:

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