The Life of Thomas Paine: Mover of the "Declaration of Independence;":Secretary of Foreign Affairs Under the First American Congress; Member of the National Convention in France

From the INTRODUCTION. A full and impartial history of Thomas Paine alone can supply that, the omission of which falsifies every work pretending to give an account of the war for the national independence of the United States. The American Revolution of 1776, of which Thomas Paine was the author-hero, was the prelude to that far more sanguinary struggle against oppression and wrong which overturned, or irreparably shook, every throne in Western Europe; including, in the category, even the c...