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by: Thomas Paine
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Binding: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 320.011
EAN: 9780679433149
ISBN: 0679433147
Label: Everyman's Library
Manufacturer: Everyman's Library
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 368
Publication Date: October 04, 1994
Publisher: Everyman's Library
Release Date: October 04, 1994
Sales Rank: 255011
Studio: Everyman's Library
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The authorities in power in England during Thomas Paine’s lifetime saw him as an agent provocateur who used his seditious eloquence to support the emancipation of slaves and women, the demands of working people, and the rebels of the French and American Revolutions. History, on the other hand, has come to regard him as the figure who gave political cogency to the liberating ideas of the Enlightenment. His great pamphlets, Rights of Man and Common Sense, are now recognized for what they are–classic arguments in defense of the individual’s right to assert his or her freedom in the face of tyranny.
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Rating:  - Every generation and age must be as free to act for itself
This was required reading for a graduate course in the history of the French Revolution. For Thomas Paine, the eighteenth century was the Age of Enlightenment because for the first time humankind was throwing off the millstones of religious dogmatism and political despotism. Paine essentially believed that the rights of man encompassed, "...all the intellectual rights, or rights of the mind, and also all those rights of acting as an individual for his own comfort and happiness, which are not injurious ... Read More
Rating:  - Still relevant, still excellent
Let us, for a moment, forget the historical and literary importance of Right of Man and Common Sense. What if this book had just been published today? Would it still be worth reading? The answer is an unequival yes.
Althought many parts of this deal with specific issues of Paine's time (especially Rights of Man), even after two centuries, the writings of Thomas Paine are able to stoke the fires of liberty in the soul of the reader with their passion, their fierce logic and their unexpected ... Read More
Rating: - A must for those who want to understand American History
Anyone who wishes to understand American History, namely the Revolution, needs to read this book. These essays were crutial in the development of the revolutionary movement in America. Thomas Paine is a keynote figure in this time period and helped the American cause.
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