Thomas Paine's Rights of Man

Commentator Hitchens reveals how Thomas Paines "Rights of Man" forms the philosophical cornerstone of the worlds most powerful republic: the United States of America. Unabridged. 1 MP3 CD.

The Barnes & Noble Review

The London Independent once called polemicist Christopher Hitchens "a Tom Paine for our troubled times," and while the appropriateness of the moniker is debatable, the choice of Hitchens to write on Paine's Rights of Man in the Atlantic Monthly Press's Books That Changed the World series is a good one. (Other volumes in the collection include the ubiquitous Karen Armstrong on the Bible and P. J. O'Rourke, oddly enough, on Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations.)

Chistopher Hitchens is a widely published polemicist and frequent radio and TV commentator. He is a contributing editor to Vanity Fair and a visiting professor of liberal studies at the New School in New York.