The Trouble With Tom
The Strange Afterlife and Times of Thomas Paine
Collins, Paul
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BOOK SYNOPSIS
[A] quixotic, mischievous and often hilarious workPart travelogue, part memoir and part historical mystery, this book reads like a wry, witty novel and offers a delicious twist at the end.Publishers Weekly Paul Collins takes us on a strange odyssey down the forgotten roads of history as he hunts for the bones of Tom Paineexhumed and then lost, and now scattered around the globe. Crossing the paths of everyone from Walt Whitman and Charles Darwin to sex reformers and feral monkeys, this colorful search for a founding fathers body simultaneously excavates the very soul of democracy.
AUTHOR BIO
Paul Collins is an assistant professor of English at Portland State University and the author of Sixpence House, The Trouble with Tom, Not Even Wrong, and Banvards Folly. His work has appeared in Smithsonian, the New York Times, and Slate. He edits the Collins Library imprint of McSweeneys Books and appears regularly on NPRs Weekend Edition as the shows resident literary detective.
BOOK REVIEWS
The embodiment of revolution comes in for an appropriately anarchicand wild, and thoroughly enjoyableappreciationLiterary travel meets history, laced with cartloads of trivia and endless humor. Kirkus Reviews This is research as the Great Library God intendedone part resourcefulness; one part curiosity; one part instinct; one part slow, keen observation of detail.Los Angeles Times The Trouble with Tom, which seems to begin as a quest to find the remainsa metaphor for understanding Painebecomes a meditation on how elusive both are. The book is full of wry musings and incisive observations about history.Mother Jones What I appreciate so much about Collins is that he chooses to explore the byways of history rather than its highways (especially its superhighways). Rather, its always the odd and unusual that catches his eye and that he chooses to share with usand arent we lucky that he does.Nancy Pearl, NPR Book Beat
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MORE BOOK INFO
ISBN: 1582346135
ISBN(13-digit): 9781582346137
Dewey Decimal: 900
Book Publisher: St Martins Pr
Language: ENG
No. of Pages: 278
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