Common Sense, The Crisis, & Other Writings from the American Revolution: A Library of America Paperback...

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Thomas Paine Eric Foner

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

A Library of America Paperback Classic

Thomas Paine, Eric Foner

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The Library of America
15 January 2017

Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945); American War of Independence; Political structures: democracy

"Now in paperback, Paine's essential American writings in authoritative Library of America texts- 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. In Common Sense, Paine 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."

By: Thomas Paine
Introduction by: Eric Foner
Imprint: The Library of America
Country of Publication: United States
Edition: Revised ed.
Dimensions: Height: 202mm, Width: 131mm, Spine: 22mm
Weight: 426g
ISBN: 9781598534337
ISBN 10: 1598534335
Pages: 475
Publication Date: 15 January 2017
Recommended Age: From 14 years
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Eric Foner is DeWitt Clinton Professor of History at Columbia University and the author of Tom Paine and Revolutionary America, among many other works. His most recent book, The Fiery Trial- Abraham Lincoln and American Slavery won the Pulitzer, Bancroft, and Lincoln prizes for 2011.