Works by
Jack Fruchtman, Jr.
(Writer)

The Apocalyptic Politics of Richard Price and Joseph Priestley: A Study in Late Eighteenth Century English Republican Millennialism (1983)

Thomas Paine: Apostle of Freedom (1994)
As Thomas Paine stated in Crisis (1776), "These are the times that try men's souls."  Thomas Paine: Apostle of Freedom has never been more appropriate, or more desperately needed.  With politicians and pundits appropriating supposedly traditional American values, now is the time for an accurate historical portrait of a thinker who was critically important to the founding of the republic, the man called, "The Voice of the Revolution,' the man who gave the name to the United States -- Thomas Paine.

Paine was one of the most radical and outspoken figures of the eighteenth century -- an independent thinker on a level with Voltaire and Goethe.  Together with his colleagues Thomas Jefferson and Benjamin Franklin, Paine provided the philosophical underpinnings for the new nation.  Best known for his radical works, The Age of Reason, Rights of Man, and, above all, Common Sense, his words have inspired reformers around the world since they were written.

Atlantic Cousins: Benjamin Franklin and His Visionary Friends (2005)
Ben Franklin was at the heart of the Enlightenment. He drew to him some of the greatest minds of that time, people who remain among the most intriguing in history — Americans, Englishmen, and Frenchmen whose ideas continue to shape how we live. Through engaging anecdotes and short histories, Atlantic Cousins includes intimate portraits of Franklin and Thomas Paine, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, John Adams, Voltaire, the Marquis de Condorcet, Georges-Jacques Danton, Camille Desmoulins — and their arch-enemy, William Cobbett, an unrelenting monarchist and anglophile.

Aside from the colorful personalities, author Jack Fruchtman documents developments from Thomas Paine's smokeless candles to the founding of the University of Pennsylvania and the University of Virginia; the debate that led to the Declaration of Independence; the abolitionist movement both in America and abroad; and Paine's Rights of Man.

The Supreme Court (2006)
From the 1987 televised Senate Judiciary Committee hearings on President Reagan's nomination of Robert Bork to the Supreme Court to the recent hearings on President Bush's nomination of John Roberts to become Chief Justice, it is clear that Americans' interest in how the Court's ruling on social issues might affect their lives is at an all-time high. Today, similarly-concerned students enroll in courses on American Government, the Supreme Court, Constitutional Law, Introduction to Law, and the American Judiciary as never before. In this brief book, The Supreme Court: Rulings on American Government and Society, Jack Fruchtman Jr. Provides for these courses an anthology of edited rulings from the Court - some landmark, many contemporary, along with topic introductions and case head notes. Here, Students will examine the Court's own words, logic, and thinking on the major issues of the day, among them, freedom of speech, separation of church and state, law enforcement, affirmative action, gender discrimination, abortion and privacy.