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Citizen Paine
John P. . Ed(S): Kaminski
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Description for Citizen Paine
Hardback. This compilation of over 1000 quotations on 450 topics draws exclusively from the genius of Tom Paine. Accompanied by an insightful and concise biography, this volume broadens and deepens our understanding and appreciation of this remarkable revolutionary. Editor(s): Kaminski, John P. Num Pages: 144 pages, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: GBCQ; JPA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 220 x 148 x 20. Weight in Grams: 425.
Thomas Paine was the quintessential revolutionary. No other person captured so well the explosiveness of the last quarter of the eighteenth century. In 1805 John Adams, long a critic of Paine, condemned the labeling of the era as the Age of Reason—the title of Paine's last major work. Admitting that no other "man in the world has had more influence on its inhabitants or affairs for the last thirty years than Tom Paine," Adams satirically suggested that this revolutionary era be called "the Age of Paine." Paine was a complex man. Each of his fifty biographers since his death in ... Read more
Thomas Paine was the quintessential revolutionary. No other person captured so well the explosiveness of the last quarter of the eighteenth century. In 1805 John Adams, long a critic of Paine, condemned the labeling of the era as the Age of Reason—the title of Paine's last major work. Admitting that no other "man in the world has had more influence on its inhabitants or affairs for the last thirty years than Tom Paine," Adams satirically suggested that this revolutionary era be called "the Age of Paine." Paine was a complex man. Each of his fifty biographers since his death in ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield United States
Number of pages
144
Condition
New
Number of Pages
144
Place of Publication
Lanham, MD, United States
ISBN
9780742520882
SKU
V9780742520882
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About John P. . Ed(S): Kaminski
John P. Kaminski is the director of the Center for the Study of the American Constitution at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. He is the author and editor of numerous books including, Citizen Jefferson: Wit and Wisdom of an American Sage, Jefferson in Love: The Love Letters Between Thomas Jefferson and Maria Cosway, Federalists and Antifederalists: The Debate Over the ... Read more
Reviews for Citizen Paine
A fine new book of observations by Thomas Paine, the revolutionary pamphleteer whose "Common Sense" and "The American Crisis" so greatly influenced the founders.
The Capital Times
An extremely useful book.
Tps Echo, Thomas Paine Society Newsletter
The Capital Times
An extremely useful book.
Tps Echo, Thomas Paine Society Newsletter