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Author | : John Keane |
Publisher | : Open Road + Grove/Atlantic |
Total Pages | : 855 |
Release | : 2007-12-01 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0802199534 |
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“It is hard to imagine this magnificent biography ever being superseded . . . It is a stylish, splendidly erudite work.” —Terry Eagleton, The Guardian “More than any other public figure of the eighteenth century, Tom Paine strikes our times like a trumpet blast from a distant world.” So begins John Keane’s magnificent and award-winning (the Fraunces Tavern Book Award) biography of one of democracy’s greatest champions. Among friends and enemies alike, Paine earned a reputation as a notorious pamphleteer, one of the greatest political figures of his day, and the author of three bestselling books, Common Sense, Rights of Man, and The Age of Reason. Setting his compelling narrative against a vivid social backdrop of prerevolutionary America and the French Revolution, John Keane melds together the public and the shadowy private sides of Paine’s life in a remarkable piece of scholarship. This is the definitive biography of a man whose life and work profoundly shaped the modern age. “[A] richly detailed . . . disciplined labor of scholarship and love, an exemplar of the rewards of a gargantuan effort at historical research. . . . In short, buy it; it’s definitive.” —Library Journal
Author | : W A Speck |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 288 |
Release | : 2015-10-06 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1317323297 |
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Speck's biography examines Paine's work afresh, in light of new thinking about the role of religion in the formation of his political ideology, and also places Paine within the recently-developed context of 'Atlantic History'.
Author | : Christopher Hitchens |
Publisher | : Grove Press |
Total Pages | : 180 |
Release | : 2008-09 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9780802143839 |
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Thomas Paine's "Rights of Man" has been celebrated, criticized, maligned, suppressed, and co-opted, but Hitchens marvels at its forethought and revels in its contentiousness. In this book, he demonstrates how Paine's book forms the philosophical cornerstone of the U.S.
Author | : Moncure Daniel Conway |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 522 |
Release | : 1893 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Thomas Paine |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 88 |
Release | : 1918 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Harvey J. Kaye |
Publisher | : Hill & Wang |
Total Pages | : 326 |
Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780809089703 |
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Examines the important role and influence of Thomas Paine and his political writings on promoting a revolutionary spirit and radical fervor, from the time of America's colonial rebellion and Revolutionary War to the present day.
Author | : Sophia Rosenfeld |
Publisher | : Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | : 362 |
Release | : 2011 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0674057813 |
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Common sense has always been a cornerstone of American politics. In 1776, Tom Paine’s vital pamphlet with that title sparked the American Revolution. And today, common sense—the wisdom of ordinary people, knowledge so self-evident that it is beyond debate—remains a powerful political ideal, utilized alike by George W. Bush’s aw-shucks articulations and Barack Obama’s down-to-earth reasonableness. But far from self-evident is where our faith in common sense comes from and how its populist logic has shaped modern democracy. Common Sense: A Political History is the first book to explore this essential political phenomenon. The story begins in the aftermath of England’s Glorious Revolution, when common sense first became a political ideal worth struggling over. Sophia Rosenfeld’s accessible and insightful account then wends its way across two continents and multiple centuries, revealing the remarkable individuals who appropriated the old, seemingly universal idea of common sense and the new strategic uses they made of it. Paine may have boasted that common sense is always on the side of the people and opposed to the rule of kings, but Rosenfeld demonstrates that common sense has been used to foster demagoguery and exclusivity as well as popular sovereignty. She provides a new account of the transatlantic Enlightenment and the Age of Revolutions, and offers a fresh reading on what the eighteenth century bequeathed to the political ferment of our own time. Far from commonsensical, the history of common sense turns out to be rife with paradox and surprise.
Author | : Thomas Paine |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 476 |
Release | : 1908 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : |
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"Of this special de luxe Independence edition of the centenary issue of the writings of Thomas Paine there have been printed five hundred numbered copies." This set not numbered. v. 1. Life and appreciations.--v. 2. Common sense; Miscellany.--v. 3. The crisis.--v. 4. The rights of man. v. 1-v. 5. The rights of man. v. 2; Miscellany.--v. 6 the age of reason. v. 1.--v. 7. The age of reason. v. 2; Miscellany.--v. 8-9. Essays, letters, addresses.--v. 10. Essays, letters, poems.
Author | : Thomas Paine |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 388 |
Release | : 2000 |
Genre | : Political science |
ISBN | : 9780521667999 |
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Recoge:Common Sense; Rights of Man; The age of Reason; Agrarian justice.
Author | : Edward Larkin |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 217 |
Release | : 2005-06-27 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1139445987 |
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Although the impact of works such as Common Sense and The Rights of Man has led historians to study Thomas Paine's role in the American Revolution and political scientists to evaluate his contributions to political theory, scholars have tacitly agreed not to treat him as a literary figure. This book not only redresses this omission, but also demonstrates that Paine's literary sensibility is particularly evident in the very texts that confirmed his importance as a theorist. And yet, because of this association with the 'masses', Paine is often dismissed as a mere propagandist. Thomas Paine and the Literature of Revolution recovers Paine as a transatlantic popular intellectual who would translate the major political theories of the eighteenth century into a language that was accessible and appealing to ordinary citizens on both sides of the Atlantic.