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The Daily Thomas Paine: A Year of Common-Sense Quotes for a Nonsensical Age

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The Daily Thomas Paine: A Year of Common-Sense Quotes for a Nonsensical Age - Paine, Thomas, and Gray, Edward G (Foreword by)
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"We can call Thomas Paine-eminent Founder, verbal bomb-thrower, Deist, revolutionary, and rationalist-the spark of the American Revolution. In his influential pamphlets, Paine codified both colonial outrage and the intellectual justification for independence, arguing consistently and convincingly for Enlightenment values and the power of the people. He was a master of political rhetoric, from the sarcastic insult to the diplomatic aper???cu. Today, we are living in times that, as Paine said, try men's souls. Whatever your ...

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The Daily Thomas Paine: A Year of Common-Sense Quotes for a Nonsensical Age 2020, University of Chicago Press

ISBN-13: 9780226653518

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