Citizen Tom Paine Author:Howard Fast This is a novel about Tom Paine, itinerant journeyman printer and militant voice of the American Revolution. It was Paine's fiery writings, set down by the flickering light of campfires, that kept alive the passion for freedom in the starved. beleaguered soldiers at Valley Forge. Howard Fast's — "Citizen Tom Paine" was praised by the "New Yorke... more »r" as the story of one of the few men of his time who understood the Revolution, who understood the inevitability of America, who understood the the thirteen quarreling, jealous colonies bore within them the seeds of a new world.« less