Thomas Paine. Major Works: Common Sense / The American Crisis / The Rights Of Man / The Age Of Reason...

Thomas Paine. Major Works: Common Sense / The American Crisis / The Rights Of Man / The Age Of Reason...
ISBN-10
1326977881
ISBN-13
9781326977887
Pages
626
Language
English
Published
2017-03-16
Publisher
Lulu.com
Author
Thomas Paine

Description

Thomas Paine (or Pain; February 9, 1737 [O.S. January 29, 1736] - June 8, 1809) was an English-American political activist, philosopher, political theorist, and revolutionary. One of the Founding Fathers of the United States, he authored the two most influential pamphlets at the start of the American Revolution, and he inspired the rebels in 1776 to declare independence from Britain. His ideas reflected Enlightenment-era rhetoric of transnational human rights. He has been called "a corsetmaker by trade, a journalist by profession, and a propagandist by inclination."