Thomas Paine

By Alfred J. Ayer

[First published in 1988 in Great Britain by Martin Secker Á Warburg Limited. University of Chicago Press edition published 1990]

• Title Page
• Contents
• Preface

• Chapter 1:
  The Years of Obscurity
• Chapter 2:
  The Precursors
• Chapter 3:
  Common Sense and Its Effects
• Chapter 4:
  The Onslaught of Burke
• Chapter 5:
  Rights of Man: Part One
• Chapter 6:
  Rights of Man: Part Two
• Chapter 7:
  Citizen Paine
• Chapter 8:
  The Age of Reason
• Chapter 9:
  The Last Years
• Epilogue
• Index