Common Sense (Revised) (Spiral Bound)

Name: Common Sense (Revised) (Spiral Bound)
Brand: Penguin Group
SKU: SPTM-9780140390162
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Review Quotes:
"No writer has exceeded Paine in ease and familiarity of style; in perspicuity of expression, happiness of elucidation, and in simple unassuming language." --Thomas Jefferson

Biographical Note:
Thomas Paine (1737-1802) was born at Thetford, Norfolk in England, as a son of a Quaker. He immigrated to America in 1774. There he published works criticising the slavery and supporting American independence. He became very popular but returned to England where he became involved in the French Revolution. After that he returned to America, where he died.

Isaac Kramnick is a professor of Government at Cornell University and has edited of The Federalist Papers and The Thomas Paine Reader.

Table of Contents:
Common Sense Editor's Introduction
Background to the American Revolution, 1776
From staymaker to revolutionary: The life and career of Tom Paine
The argument of Common Sense
Bourgeois radicalism - the ideology of Tom Paine
Paine and the American bicentennial
Notes to Editor's Introduction
A Note on the Text
Suggestions for Further Reading
Common Sense
Introduction
Of the Origin and Design of Government in General
Of Monarchy and Hereditary Succession
Thoughts on the present State of American Affairs
Of the present Ability of America, with some misellaneous Reflexions
Appendix
To the Representatives of the Religious Society of the People called Quakers

Publisher Marketing:
Published anonomously in 1776, the year of the American Declaration of Independence, Paine's "Common Sense" became an immediate bestseller, with fifty-six editions printed in that year alone. It was this pamphlet, more than any other factor, which helped to spark off the movement that established the independence of the United States.