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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Enlightenment, Revolution, and the Birth of Modern Nations Craig Nelson. THOMAS PAINE Enlightenment , Revolution , and the Birth of Modern Nations Craig Nelson PENGUIN BOOKS PENGUIN BOOKS Published by the Penguin Group Penguin Group (
Enlightenment, Revolution, and the Birth of Modern Nations Craig Nelson. THOMAS PAINE Enlightenment , Revolution , and the Birth of Modern Nations Craig Nelson PENGUIN BOOKS PENGUIN BOOKS Published by the Penguin Group Penguin Group (
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... published in the United States of America by Viking Penguin , a member of Penguin Group ( USA ) Inc. 2006 Published in Penguin Books 2007 I 3 5 7 9 10 8 64 2 Copyright © The Craig Nelson Company , Inc. , 2006 All rights reserved ...
... published in the United States of America by Viking Penguin , a member of Penguin Group ( USA ) Inc. 2006 Published in Penguin Books 2007 I 3 5 7 9 10 8 64 2 Copyright © The Craig Nelson Company , Inc. , 2006 All rights reserved ...
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... published . He interviewed as many friends and acquaintances as pos- sible in order to produce a definitive Paine biography , doing penance for having been the American publisher of Francis Oldys's The Life of Thomas Paine , a ...
... published . He interviewed as many friends and acquaintances as pos- sible in order to produce a definitive Paine biography , doing penance for having been the American publisher of Francis Oldys's The Life of Thomas Paine , a ...
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... published — in England , and in France , and in the United Colonies . Practically every human detail about the seventeenth century's lode- stone figure , Isaac Newton , is now lost to us , even the specifics of his phys- ical appearance ...
... published — in England , and in France , and in the United Colonies . Practically every human detail about the seventeenth century's lode- stone figure , Isaac Newton , is now lost to us , even the specifics of his phys- ical appearance ...
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... publish it . The volume of correspondence was stupefying . Princeton University cur- rently expects to finish publishing Thomas Jefferson's 75 volumes of pa- pers , consisting of the estimated twenty thousand letters he sent and the ...
... publish it . The volume of correspondence was stupefying . Princeton University cur- rently expects to finish publishing Thomas Jefferson's 75 volumes of pa- pers , consisting of the estimated twenty thousand letters he sent and the ...
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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