Thomas Paine
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English
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In January 1776, Thomas Paine published a pamphlet called Common Sense, which electrified the American colonies. Paine demanded freedom from Britain when even fervent patriots were revolting only against excessive taxation. His daring prose spurred passage of the Declaration of Independence. The Crisis, written when Paine was a soldier during the Continental Army's bleakest days, begins with the world-famous line "These are the times that try men's...
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English
Description
Here ... are the most important works of Tom Paine, edited and interpreted by Howard Fast. The running commentaries by Howard Fast throw new light on the life and work of the man who first gave voice to the ideals of the Republic. To complete the picture, this volume contains Howard Fast's magnificent historical novel, Citizen Tom Paine. --Dust jacket flap.
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Series
Library of America volume 76
Publisher
Library of America
Pub. Date
1995
Physical Desc
906 p. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
"I know not whether any man in the world", wrote John Adams in 1805, "has had more influence on its inhabitants or affairs for the last thirty years than Tom Paine". The impassioned democratic voice of the Age of Revolution, Paine wrote for his mass audience with vigor, clarity, and "common sense". This is the first major new edition of his work in 50 years, and the most comprehensive single-volume collection of his writings available. Emphasizing...
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Series
American century writers volume ACW43
Publisher
Hill and Wang
Pub. Date
[c1961]
Edition
Rev. ed.
Physical Desc
clxiii, 436 p. 19 cm.
Language
English
Publisher
Pantheon Books
Pub. Date
[2020]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xviii, 906 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"A monumental, canon-defining anthology of four centuries of American essays, from Cotton Mather and Benjamin Franklin to David Foster Wallace and Zadie Smith. Many of the essays Phillip Lopate has gathered here address themselves--sometimes critically--to American values, but even in those that don't, one can detect a subtext about being American. The Founding Fathers and early American writers self-consciously struggle to establish a recognizable...
