Common Sense, the Rights of Man and Other Essential Writings of ThomasPaine - Brossura

Paine, Thomas

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ISBN 10: 0451528891 ISBN 13: 9780451528896

Casa editrice: Signet, 2003

Riassunto

A trio of important works from the "English Voltaire" and advocate of democracy includes Common Sense, in which he declared independence from Britain, and The Crisis, in which he experienced first hand the horrors of war as a Continental Army solider. Reprint.

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Without...Paine, the sword of Washington would have been wielded in vain --John Adams

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Thomas Paine was born in England in 1737 and worked as a schoolteacher, storekeeper, and customs inspector before moving to Philadelphia in 1774. He quickly acquired a reputation as a journalist and published his hugely successful and influential pamphlet Common Sense in 1776. The Crisis, written when Paine was a soldier in the darkest days of the revolution—with its famous opening words, “These are the times that try men’s souls”—called for perseverance and prevented Washington’s army from disintegrating. To honor him for defending the French Revolution in Rights of Man, France made him a citizen and elected him to their constitutional convention. He died in 1809.

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• Editore: Signet
• Data di pubblicazione: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0451528891
• ISBN 13: 9780451528896
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 416