Thomas Paine : Major Works : Common Sense / The American Crisis / The Rights Of Man / The Age Of Reason / Agrarian Justice / Thomas Paine.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Paine, Thomas, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Revolutionaries.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (924 pages)

Other Title:

THOMAS PAINE

Place of Publication:

[Place of publication not identified] : Lulu, 2017.

Summary:

Thomas Paine (or Pain; February 9, 1737 [O.S. January 29, 1736] - June 8, 1809) was an English-American political activist, philosopher, political theorist, and revolutionary. One of the Founding Fathers of the United States, he authored the two most influential pamphlets at the start of the American Revolution, and he inspired the rebels in 1776 to declare independence from Britain. His ideas reflected Enlightenment-era rhetoric of transnational human rights. He has been called "a corsetmaker by trade, a journalist by profession, and a propagandist by inclination." Born in Thetford, England, in the county of Norfolk, Paine migrated to the British American colonies in 1774 with the help of Benjamin Franklin, arriving just in time to participate in the American Revolution. Virtually every rebel read (or listened to a reading of) his powerful pamphlet Common Sense (1776), proportionally the all-time best-selling American title, which crystallized the rebellious demand for independence from Great Britain.

Notes:

Description based on: online resource; title from PDF information screen (Lulu, viewed April 9, 2023).

ISBN:

1-326-97880-2