Thomas Paine: Enlightenment, Revolution, and the Birth of Modern NationsPenguin, 04/09/2007 - 432 páginas A fresh new look at the Enlightenment intellectual who became the most controversial of America's founding fathers Despite his being a founder of both the United States and the French Republic, the creator of the phrase "United States of America," and the author of Common Sense, Thomas Paine is the least well known of America's founding fathers. This edifying biography by Craig Nelson traces Paine's path from his years as a London mechanic, through his emergence as the voice of revolutionary fervor on two continents, to his final days in the throes of dementia. By acquainting us as never before with this complex and combative genius, Nelson rescues a giant from obscurity-and gives us a fascinating work of history. |
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... Richard Price , William Godwin , and Mary Wollstonecraft . Indeed , though from the last years of his life to the present day , Paine has been considered one of the most controversial figures in American history , nearly all of his ...
... Richard Price , William Godwin , and Mary Wollstonecraft . Indeed , though from the last years of his life to the present day , Paine has been considered one of the most controversial figures in American history , nearly all of his ...
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... Richard Perle ( the intellectual father of the American war in Iraq ) , Andrew Jackson , and Abraham Lincoln - and all of them are right to claim him . Thomas Edison thought Paine " the equal of Washington in making American liberty ...
... Richard Perle ( the intellectual father of the American war in Iraq ) , Andrew Jackson , and Abraham Lincoln - and all of them are right to claim him . Thomas Edison thought Paine " the equal of Washington in making American liberty ...
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... Richard Price , Joseph Priestley , Mary Wollstonecraft , William Hazlitt , Thomas Robert Malthus , and William Wordsworth . One author , Immanuel Kant , offered a primer to those hop- ing to join this new global movement : Enlightenment ...
... Richard Price , Joseph Priestley , Mary Wollstonecraft , William Hazlitt , Thomas Robert Malthus , and William Wordsworth . One author , Immanuel Kant , offered a primer to those hop- ing to join this new global movement : Enlightenment ...
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... Richard Steele ( hoping to escape bankruptcy ) and Joseph Addison ( seeking a way out of academe ) and published six days a week from 1711 to 1714 , the Spec- tator would have a profound effect on the century's new meritocrats , as it ...
... Richard Steele ( hoping to escape bankruptcy ) and Joseph Addison ( seeking a way out of academe ) and published six days a week from 1711 to 1714 , the Spec- tator would have a profound effect on the century's new meritocrats , as it ...
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... Richard's Almanack de- lineated their shared ideology : hard work , fortitude , thrift , patience , pru- dence , economy , moderation , sobriety , and self - improvement ( qualities that could just as easily have been enumerated by ...
... Richard's Almanack de- lineated their shared ideology : hard work , fortitude , thrift , patience , pru- dence , economy , moderation , sobriety , and self - improvement ( qualities that could just as easily have been enumerated by ...
Índice
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Pragmatic Utopians | 51 |
Hell Is Not Easily Conquered | 101 |
The Silas Deane Affair | 126 |
The Missionary Bereft of His Mission | 146 |
Droits de lHomme ou Droits du Seigneur? | 181 |
The Sovereigns Among Us | 235 |
The Religion of Science | 260 |
The Perfidious Mr Morris | 273 |
Utopian Dissolves | 305 |
Provenance | 326 |
Notes | 341 |
Sources | 365 |
Index | 377 |
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