Thomas Paine and the Promise of America

Moonstone Inc. & The Historical Society of Pennsylvania Present

Thomas Paine: The Forgotten Founding Father Part 4

Thomas Paine and the Promise of America

A Presentation by Harvey J. Kaye

Wednesday April 22, 2009, 6pm

Historical Society of Pennsylvania
1300 Locust Street, RSVP 215-732-6200 ext. 412

“I couldn’t put the thing down! The story of Thomas Paine – then and now, for the man and his ideas are very much alive
today – stirs the heart, moves the mind, and routs the demon
of despair. The best political book of the year!”
Bill Moyers

“Kaye’s lucid work helps create the free citizen’s memorial
to Thomas Paine, who is still shamefully unacknowledged by
the democratic republic that he lived and died to bring about.”
Christopher Hitchens

Harvey J. Kaye is Ben and Joyce Rosenberg Professor of Social Change and Development and Director of the Center for History and Social Change at the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay. He is author of Why Do Ruling Classes Fear History? and Other Questions, The Powers of the Past, The British Marxist Historians, Thomas Paine: Firebrand of the Revolution, and Thomas Paine and the Promise of America.