In Nelson’s Thomas Paine we now have a rich and vivid portrait that does justice to this towering figure of our history, one that brings him to life against the dramatic backdrop of the Revolutionary era and the heady intellectual exhilaration of the Age of Enlightenment. Five years in the making, drawing on both the most recent scholarship and the archives of Philadelphia, Washington, New York, Paris, London, Lewes, and Thetford, Nelson’s Thomas Paine reveals the man who famously asserted that “we have it in our power to begin the world over again,” to be as much a man of our own time as a paragon of the Enlightenment.

Please join us for an evening cocktail reception at the Thomas Paine Memorial Museum celebrating Author Craig Nelson’s latest scholarship on the legacy of Thomas Paine.

Musical Guest: Pianist Antonio Esposito

The Thomas Paine Memorial Museum is dedicated to perpetuating the legacy of Founding Father Thomas Paine. This landmark memorial was founded in 1925 by Association President William Vanderweyde and Vice President Thomas Alva Edison and has served the community and nation for over eighty years by providing public access to research materials, programs, exhibitions, and events that illuminate Thomas Paine’s fundamental beliefs in reason and principle, in order that we may better secure political equality, social justice and the pursuit of happiness for ourselves and for posterity

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