01061cam a2200217 i 4500 214709254 TxAuBib 20101214120000.0 930709s1943||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u TxAuBib rda Fast, Howard, 1914- Citizen Tom Paine / Howard Fast. New York : Duell, Sloan and Pearce, 1943. 341 pages ; 21 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier 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. 20101214. Historical fiction.