Selected writings of Thomas Paine / edited by Ian Shapiro and Jane E. Calvert ; with an introduction by Ian Shapiro ; with essays by J.C.D. Clark, Jane E. Calvert, Eileen Hunt Botting.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Cover; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Thomas Paine, America's First Public Intellectual; Note on the Texts; Texts; Thoughts on Defensive War (1775); Common Sense; Addressed to the Inhabitants of America, on the Following Interesting Subjects (1776); [Selections from] The Crisis: In Thirteen Numbers. Written During the Late War (1792); To the People of America [A Supernumerary Crisis] (1783); Dissertations on Government, the Affairs of the Bank, and Paper-Money (1786); Rights of Man: Being an Answer to Mr. Burke's Attack on the French Revolution (1791).

Rights of Man. Part the Second. Combining Principle and Practice (1792)Reasons for Wishing to Preserve the Life of Louis Capet. As Delivered to the National Convention (1793); The Age of Reason, Being an Investigation of True and Fabulous Theology (1794); The Age of Reason, Part the Second. Being an Investigation of True and of Fabulous Theology (1795); Dissertation on First-Principles of Government (1795); Letter to George Washington, President of the United States of America. On Affairs Public and Private (1796); Agrarian Justice, Opposed to Agrarian Law, and to Agrarian Monopoly (1797).

Of the Religion of Deism Compared with the Christian Religion, and the Superiority of the Former over the Latter (1804)Of the Term "Liberty of the Press" (1806); Essays; Thomas Paine: The English Dimension; Thomas Paine, Quakerism, and the Limits of Religious Liberty during the American Revolution; Thomas Paine amidst the Early Feminists; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z.

A central figure in Western history and American political thought, Thomas Paine continues to provoke debate among politicians, activists, and scholars. People of all ideological stripes are inspired by his trenchant defense of the rights and good sense of ordinary individuals, and his penetrating critiques of arbitrary power.  This volume contains Paine's explosive Common Sense in its entirety, including the oft-ignored Appendix, as well as selections from his other major writings: The American Crisis, Rights of Man, and The Age of Reason. It also contains several of Paine's shorter essays. All the documents have been transcribed directly from the originals, making this edition the most reliable one available. Essays by Ian Shapiro, Jonathan Clark, Jane Calvert, and Eileen Hunt Botting bring Paine into sharp focus, illuminating his place in the tumultuous decades surrounding the American and French Revolutions and his larger historical legacy.

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