Common Sense, The Crisis, & Other Writings from the American Revolution Common Sense, The Crisis, & Other Writings from the American Revolution

Common Sense, The Crisis, & Other Writings from the American Revolution

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An authoritative collection of Thomas Paine’s essential writings on American politics and governance—including the landmark Revolutionary War pamphlet, Common Sense
 
After a life of obscurity and failure in England, Thomas Paine came to America in 1774 at age 37. Within fourteen months he published Common Sense, the most influential pamphlet of the American Revolution, and began a career that would see him hailed and reviled in the American nation he helped create.

Collected in this volume are Paine's most influential texts. In Common Sense, he sets forth an inspiring vision of an independent America as an asylum for freedom and an example of popular self-government in a world oppressed by despotism and hereditary privilege. The American Crisis, begun during “the times that try men’s souls” in 1776, is a masterpiece of popular pamphleteering in which Paine vividly reports current developments, taunts and ridicules British adversaries, and enjoins his readers to remember the immense stakes of their struggle. They are joined in this invaluable reader by a selection of Paine’s other American pamphlets and his letters to George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, and others.

GÉNERO
Historia
PUBLICADO
2015
28 de abril
IDIOMA
EN
Inglés
EXTENSIÓN
475
Páginas
EDITORIAL
Library of America
VENDEDOR
Penguin Random House LLC
TAMAÑO
3.7
MB

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