Books with author Howard Fast

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

THIS IS A FICTIONALIZED BIOGRAPHY of one of the founding spirits of the American Republic. Tom Paine's life was as heroic as his vision of a better world was fervent. Born in incredible poverty in England, he was helped to go to America by Benjamin Franklin. Armed with introductions from Franklin, he found employment in the little provincial capital of Philadelphia and gradually emerged as an editor of importance in the colonies.