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Author : Harvey J. Kaye
Publisher : Hill & Wang
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : History
ISBN : 080908970X
Examines the important role and influence of Thomas Paine and his political writings on promoting a revolutionary spirit and radical fervor, from the time of America's colonial rebellion and Revolutionary War to the present day.
Author : Harvey J. Kaye
Publisher : Hill and Wang
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2006-07-25
Category : History
ISBN : 0809093448
Thomas Paine was one of the most remarkable political writers of the modern world and the greatest radical of a radical age. Through writings like Common Sense--and words such as "The sun never shined on a cause of greater worth," "We have it in our power to begin the world over again," and "These are the times that try men's souls"--he not only turned America's colonial rebellion into a revolutionary war but, as Harvey J. Kaye demonstrates, articulated an American identity charged with exceptional purpose and promise.
Author : Thomas Paine
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 74 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1791
Category : Monarchy
ISBN : BSB:BSB11430335
Author : Craig Nelson
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 436 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2007-09-04
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0143112384
A fresh new look at the Enlightenment intellectual who became the most controversial of America's founding fathers Despite his being a founder of both the United States and the French Republic, the creator of the phrase "United States of America," and the author of Common Sense, Thomas Paine is the least well known of America's founding fathers. This edifying biography by Craig Nelson traces Paine's path from his years as a London mechanic, through his emergence as the voice of revolutionary fervor on two continents, to his final days in the throes of dementia. By acquainting us as never before with this complex and combative genius, Nelson rescues a giant from obscurity-and gives us a fascinating work of history.
Author : Harlow Giles Unger
Publisher : Da Capo Press
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2019-09-10
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780306921940
From New York Times bestselling author and Founding Fathers' biographer Harlow Giles Unger comes the astonishing biography of the man whose pen set America ablaze, inspiring its revolution, and whose ideas about reason and religion continue to try men's souls. Thomas Paine's words were like no others in history: they leaped off the page, inspiring readers to change their lives, their governments, their kings, and even their gods. In an age when spoken and written words were the only forms of communication, Paine's aroused men to action like no one else. The most widely read political writer of his generation, he proved to be more than a century ahead of his time, conceiving and demanding unheard-of social reforms that are now integral elements of modern republican societies. Among them were government subsidies for the poor, universal housing and education, pre- and post-natal care for women, and universal social security. An Englishman who emigrated to the American colonies, he formed close friendships with Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, and James Madison, and his ideas helped shape the Declaration of Independence and the Bill of Rights. However, the world turned against Paine in his later years. While his earlier works, Common Sense and Rights of Man, attacked the political and social status quo here on earth, The Age of Reason attacked the status quo of the hereafter. Former friends shunned him, and the man America had hailed as the muse of the American Revolution died alone and forgotten. Packed with action and intrigue, soldiers and spies, politics and perfidy, Unger's Thomas Paine is a much-needed new look at a defining figure.
Author : Harvey J. Kaye
Publisher : John Hunt Publishing
Page : 147 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2019-10-25
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781789043563
The eighteen essays and speeches in Take Hold of Our History render a manifesto – a call to remember, redeem, and embrace the American radical story and tradition in favor of cultivating American historical memory and imagination and making America radical once again. For too long we have allowed the right to hijack the past and suppress, efface, lie about, and/or appropriate the essentially radical story of America from the struggles of the Revolution to those of the Age of Roosevelt and the 1960s. And no less tragically, we on the left, apparently haunted by the worst of our national experience, have turned our back on our own story and deferred to the tales of conservatives and reactionaries. Fleeing from the past, we merely compound the tragedies and ironies of American history, for we turn our backs on both the nation’s democratic creed and radical imperative, but also the struggles from the bottom up, the struggles in which working people and others have laid hold of America’s revolutionary promise and succeeded in making the United States freer, more equal and more democratic, at times, radically so. As Bill Moyers put it in 2008: “Here in the first decade of the twenty-first century the story that becomes America’s dominant narrative will shape our collective imagination and our politics for a long time.” The time has come for us to advance that narrative.
Author : Harvey J. Kaye
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2014-04-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9781451691436
Revisits Franklin D. Roosevelt's "four freedoms for all Americans," the most significant legacy of America's most progressive generation, and stresses the importance of honoring these freedoms today.
Author : Thomas Paine
Publisher : Coventry House Publishing
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2017-03-06
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 8210379456XXX
Author : Yuval Levin
Publisher : Basic Books
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2013-12-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9780465040940
An acclaimed portrait of Edmund Burke, Thomas Paine, and the origins of modern conservatism and liberalism In The Great Debate, Yuval Levin explores the roots of the left/right political divide in America by examining the views of the men who best represented each side at its origin: Edmund Burke and Thomas Paine. Striving to forge a new political path in the tumultuous age of the American and French revolutions, these two ideological titans sparred over moral and philosophical questions about the nature of political life and the best approach to social change: radical and swift, or gradual and incremental. The division they articulated continues to shape our political life today. Essential reading for anyone seeking to understand the basis of our political order and Washington's acrimonious rifts today, The Great Debate offers a profound examination of what conservatism, progressivism, and the debate between them truly amount to.
Author : Pat McCarthy
Publisher : Enslow Publishing
Page : 134 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0766014460
This is a biography of the man who wrote a series of "Crisis" papers to inspire the Continental Army to push forward to defeat the British.
Author : Christopher Hitchens
Publisher : Open Road + Grove/Atlantic
Page : 147 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2008-09-16
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781555849276
A “brief but potent” appreciation of one of the most influential and revolutionary works of political thought “mixing biography, criticism and philosophy” (Los Angeles Times). Christopher Hitchens, the #1 New York Times–bestselling author of God Is Not Great, has been called a Tom Paine for our times. In this addition to the Books that Changed the World Series, Hitchens vividly introduces Paine and his Declaration of the Rights of Man, the world’s foremost defense of democracy. An outraged response to Edmund Burke’s attack on the French Revolution, Paine’s immortal text is a passionate defense of man’s inalienable rights, and the key to his reputation. Ever since the day of its publication in 1791, Declaration of the Rights of Man has been celebrated, criticized, maligned, suppressed, and co-opted. But in Thomas Paine’s Rights of Man, Hitchens marvels at its forethought and revels in its contentiousness. Famous as a polemicist and provocative commentator, Hitchens himself is a political descendant of the great pamphleteer. Here, he demonstrates how Paine’s book became the philosophical cornerstone of the United States of America, and how “in a time when both rights and reason are under several kinds of open and covert attack, the life and writing of Thomas Paine will always be part of the arsenal on which we shall need to depend.” Enlivened by Hitchens’s extraordinary prose, this “elegant and useful primer . . . ought still to engage us all” (The Guardian). “Paine, as Hitchens notes in this lucid and fast-moving appreciation, has no proper memorial anywhere; this slender book makes a good start.” —Kirkus Reviews
Author : Harvey J. Kaye
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
Page : 462 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2007-04-15
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780374707064
Thomas Paine was one of the most remarkable political writers of the modern world and the greatest radical of a radical age. Through writings like Common Sense—and words such as "The sun never shined on a cause of greater worth," "We have it in our power to begin the world over again," and "These are the times that try men's souls"—he not only turned America's colonial rebellion into a revolutionary war but, as Harvey J. Kaye demonstrates, articulated an American identity charged with exceptional purpose and promise.
Author : Thomas Paine
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 468 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1894
Category : Political science
ISBN : YALE:39002003120137
Author : Conor Cruise O'Brien
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 390 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0226616568
As controversial and explosive as it is elegant and learned, this examination of Thomas Jefferson, as man and icon, through the critical lens of the French Revolution, offers a provocative analysis of the supreme symbol of American history and political culture and challenges the traditional perceptions of both Jeffersonian history and the Jeffersonian legacy. 15 illustrations.
Author : Gordon S. Wood
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2006-05-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9781101201664
In this brilliantly illuminating group portrait of the men who came to be known as the Founding Fathers, the incomparable Gordon Wood has written a book that seriously asks, "What made these men great?" and shows us, among many other things, just how much character did in fact matter. The life of each—Washington, Adams, Jefferson, Franklin, Hamilton, Madison, Paine—is presented individually as well as collectively, but the thread that binds these portraits together is the idea of character as a lived reality. They were members of the first generation in history that was self-consciously self-made men who understood that the arc of lives, as of nations, is one of moral progress.