The Trouble with Tom

Download or read book The Trouble with Tom written by Paul Collins and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2010-09-05 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Book Sense Fall 2005 History Channel Top Ten Pick Paul Collins combines present-day travelogue with an odyssey down the forgotten paths of history as he searches for the physical remains of founding father Thomas Paine. Paine's missing body, like a saint's relics, has been scattered in pieces around the world over the last two centuries-a brainstem in New York, a box of bones in London, a lock of hair in Edinburgh, a skull in Sydney. As Paul tracks down these remnants, he revisits the unusual life of Tom Paine-and in his search for Paine's body, Collins uncovers that body's soul.