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Thomas Paine and the Clarion Call for American Independence
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Overview
Thomas Paine's words were like no others in history: they leaped off the page, inspiring readers to change their lives, their governments, their kings, and even their gods. In an age when spoken and written words were the only forms of communication, Paine's aroused men to action like no one else. The most widely read political writer of his generation, he proved to be more than a century ahead of his time, conceiving and demanding unheard-of social reforms that are now integral elements of modern republican societies. Among them were government subsidies for the poor, universal housing and education, pre- and post-natal care for women, and universal social security. An Englishman who emigrated to the American colonies, he formed close friendships with Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, and James Madison, and his ideas helped shape the Declaration of Independence and the Bill of Rights.
However, the world turned against Paine in his later years. While his earlier works, Common Sense and Rights of Man, attacked the political and social status quo here on earth, The Age of Reason attacked the status quo of the hereafter. Former friends shunned him, and the man America had hailed as the muse of the American Revolution died alone and forgotten.
Packed with action and intrigue, soldiers and spies, politics and perfidy, Unger's Thomas Paine is a much-needed new look at a defining figure.
Product Details
ISBN-13: | 9780306921940 |
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Publisher: | Hachette Books |
Publication date: | 09/10/2019 |
Sold by: | Hachette Digital, Inc. |
Format: | NOOK Book |
Sales rank: | 182,363 |
File size: | 32 MB |
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Table of Contents
List of Illustrations xi
Acknowledgments xiii
Chronology xv
Introduction 1
Chapter 1 Cries of Paine 5
Chapter 2 Common Sense 29
Chapter 3 The Times That Tried Men's Souls 49
Chapter 4 American Crisis 69
Chapter 5 Can Nothing Be Done for Poor Paine? 95
Chapter 6 Money Is Money; Paper Is Paper 117
Chapter 7 Citizen Paine 129
Chapter 8 A Tale of Two Cities 149
Chapter 9 The Terror 177
Chapter 10 In the Name of Religion 197
Chapter 11 A Letter to Washington 213
Chapter 12 Fallen Idol 237
Chapter 13 To Rescue Man from Tyranny 249
Chapter 14 When the Empire of America Shall Fall 261
Appendix A The Principal Works of Thomas Paine 267
Appendix B The Age of Reason: Contents and Summary 275
Notes 283
Primary Research Resources and Bibliography 301
Index 307