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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... political gladiator , perennially strug- gling to change the mass beliefs of humankind . He was that type of man whose emotions fattened until they became intolerable , and something had to be done , especially when it came to righting ...
... political gladiator , perennially strug- gling to change the mass beliefs of humankind . He was that type of man whose emotions fattened until they became intolerable , and something had to be done , especially when it came to righting ...
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... political beliefs into a full - throttle reverse . He opened a printshop ( a business incorporating the entire eighteenth - century media universe of let- ters , broadsides , newspapers , pamphlets , magazines , and books ) , decorated ...
... political beliefs into a full - throttle reverse . He opened a printshop ( a business incorporating the entire eighteenth - century media universe of let- ters , broadsides , newspapers , pamphlets , magazines , and books ) , decorated ...
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... political and philosophical fount he had been looking for all his life . " At his expiring flambeau , " he would explain just before he died , “ I lighted my taper . " By this time Cobbett had grown a torso as burly as in any John Bull ...
... political and philosophical fount he had been looking for all his life . " At his expiring flambeau , " he would explain just before he died , “ I lighted my taper . " By this time Cobbett had grown a torso as burly as in any John Bull ...
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... political powers for the common Englishman for the first time in that na- tion's history . William Cobbett arrived at one conclusion . If no one else would put things right , then he , who had participated so eagerly in everything that ...
... political powers for the common Englishman for the first time in that na- tion's history . William Cobbett arrived at one conclusion . If no one else would put things right , then he , who had participated so eagerly in everything that ...
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... political and religious dissent starting in 1264 , when Simon de Montfort and the Greyfriars Priory monks negotiated ... politics he was at this time a Whig , and notorious for that quality which has been defined perseverance in a good ...
... political and religious dissent starting in 1264 , when Simon de Montfort and the Greyfriars Priory monks negotiated ... politics he was at this time a Whig , and notorious for that quality which has been defined perseverance in a good ...
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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