Harlow Giles Un Thomas Paine and the Clarion Call for Ame (Hardback) (UK IMPORT)

Description: Further DetailsTitle: Thomas Paine and the Clarion Call for American IndependenceCondition: NewISBN-10: 0306921936EAN: 9780306921933ISBN: 9780306921933Publisher: Da Capo Press IncFormat: HardbackRelease Date: 10/17/2019Description: 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.Language: EnglishCountry/Region of Manufacture: USItem Height: 232mmItem Length: 156mmItem Width: 34mmItem Weight: 540gAuthor: Harlow Giles UngerGenre: BiographyTopic: HistoryRelease Year: 2019 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.

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