9780140390162

Common Sense

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  • ISBN13:

    9780140390162

  • ISBN10:

    0140390162

  • Edition: Revised
  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 1982-11-18
  • Publisher: Penguin Classics
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Summary

...well orated by reader George Vafiadis. The language and sentiment are not as outmoded as some listeners might expect and it definitely feels patriotic to hear again the fundamentals of America's beginnings." -- Kliatt MagazineGeorge Washington wrote, "I find that Common Sense is working a powerful change there (Virginia) in the minds of many men." The passion of the patriot Thomas Paine comes straight on and one can better understand the forces that shaped this country.

Table of Contents

EDITOR'S INTRODUCTION
7(50)
Background to the American Revolution, 1776
7(18)
From staymaker to revolutionary: The life and career of Tom Paine
25(12)
The argument of Common Sense
37(9)
Bourgeois radicalism -- the ideology of Tom Paine
46(9)
Paine and the American bicentennial
55(2)
NOTES TO EDITOR'S INTRODUCTION
57(2)
A NOTE ON THE TEXT
59(1)
SUGGESTIONS FOR FURTHER READING
60(1)
COMMON SENSE
61(52)
Introduction
63(2)
Of the Origin and Design of Government in General
65(6)
Of Monarchy and Hereditary Succession
71(10)
Thoughts on the present State of American Affairs
81(19)
Of the present Ability of America, with some misellaneous Reflexions
100(13)
Appendix 113
To the Representatives of the Religious Society of the People called Quakers 122

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