Selected Writings of Thomas Paine
Title | Selected Writings of Thomas Paine PDF eBook |
Author | Thomas Paine |
Publisher | Yale University Press |
Pages | 715 |
Release | 2014-11-25 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 0300210698 |
A central figure in Western history and American political thought, Thomas Paine continues to provoke debate among politicians, activists, and scholars. People of all ideological stripes are inspired by his trenchant defense of the rights and good sense of ordinary individuals, and his penetrating critiques of arbitrary power. This volume contains Paine’s explosive Common Sense in its entirety, including the oft-ignored Appendix, as well as selections from his other major writings: The American Crisis, Rights of Man, and The Age of Reason. It also contains several of Paine’s shorter essays. All the documents have been transcribed directly from the originals, making this edition the most reliable one available. Essays by Ian Shapiro, Jonathan Clark, Jane Calvert, and Eileen Hunt Botting bring Paine into sharp focus, illuminating his place in the tumultuous decades surrounding the American and French Revolutions and his larger historical legacy.
Common Sense, The Rights of Man and Other Essential Writings of ThomasPaine
Title | Common Sense, The Rights of Man and Other Essential Writings of ThomasPaine PDF eBook |
Author | Thomas Paine |
Publisher | Penguin |
Pages | 417 |
Release | 2003-07-01 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 1101219505 |
A volume of Thomas Paine's most essential works, showcasing one of American history's most eloquent proponents of democracy. Upon publication, Thomas Paine’s modest pamphlet Common Sense shocked and spurred the foundling American colonies of 1776 to action. It demanded freedom from Britain—when even the most fervent patriots were only advocating tax reform. Paine’s daring prose paved the way for the Declaration of Independence and, consequently, the Revolutionary War. For “without the pen of Paine,” as John Adams said, “the sword of Washington would have been wielded in vain.” Later, his impassioned defense of the French Revolution, Rights of Man, caused a worldwide sensation. Napoleon, for one, claimed to have slept with a copy under his pillow, recommending that “a statue of gold should be erected to [Paine] in every city in the universe.” Here in one volume, these two complete works are joined with selections from Pain's other major essays, “The Crisis,” “The Age of Reason,” and “Agrarian Justice.” Includes a Foreword by Jack Fruchtman Jr. and an Introduction by Sidney Hook
Selected Writings of Thomas Paine
Title | Selected Writings of Thomas Paine PDF eBook |
Author | Thomas Paine |
Publisher | |
Pages | 90 |
Release | 2013-10-01 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9780615918686 |
Selected Writings of Thomas Paine, Including: Common Sense, and the Crisis 1 or "These are the things that try men's soul" contain the full texts of these Common Core State Standards non-fiction reading selections. These founding documents were presented to the American colonists with an argument for freedom from the British crown at a time when the question of whether or not to seek independence was the most pressing topic of the day.
Thomas Paine's Rights of Man
Title | Thomas Paine's Rights of Man PDF eBook |
Author | Christopher Hitchens |
Publisher | Grove Press |
Pages | 180 |
Release | 2008-09 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 9780802143839 |
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.
Thomas Paine
Title | Thomas Paine PDF eBook |
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Genre | Political scientists |
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The Complete Writings of Thomas Paine
Title | The Complete Writings of Thomas Paine PDF eBook |
Author | Thomas Paine |
Publisher | |
Pages | 690 |
Release | 1945 |
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The writings of Thomas Paine helped shape the American nation and left their imprint on democratic thought all over the world. This two-volume set represents an attempt to make these writings available to both the general reader and the student. Every effort has been made to include all of Paine's writings available at present, and to present them in a manner that would make clear their historical background. Emphasis has been placed throughout on presenting Paine's writings in their essential clarity, and for this purpose efforts have been made, without in any sense distorting Paine's meaning, to modernize the spelling, capitalization and punctuation wherever it was necessary to make the meaning clear to a present day reader. --Publisher description.
The Writings of Thomas Paine
Title | The Writings of Thomas Paine PDF eBook |
Author | Thomas Paine |
Publisher | |
Pages | 468 |
Release | 1894 |
Genre | Political science |
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