Rights of Man (The Heritage Press)

xvi, [2], 269 pp. Hardcover in slipcase. Paine's famous treatise, with an introduction by Howard Fast and illustrations by Lynd Ward. "Rights of Man (1791), by Thomas Paine, posits that popular political revolution is permissible when a government does not safeguard its people, their natural rights, and their national interests. It defends the French Revolution against Edmund Burke's attack in Reflections on the Revolution in France (1790)."