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Books : Essential Thomas Paine: Common Sense, The Rights of Man |
Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 320.51
EAN: 9780452009219
ISBN: 0452009219
Label: Plume
Manufacturer: Plume
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 288
Publication Date: November 01, 1984
Publisher: Plume
Studio: Plume
Sales Rank: 698755
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In view of the last presidential election, I decided to see just how far we, as a nation, have strayed from the intentions of our founding fathers. First I read the Constitution of the United States then I read Thomas Paine.
This man must have been the greatest political writer of his time. His knowledge of the French and American revolutions, politics, economics, and human nature were simply astounding! Though I had a little trouble with the English of the day, I was able to understand ... Read More
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This was required reading for a graduate course in the history of the French Revolution. For Thomas Paine, the eighteenth century was the Age of Enlightenment because for the first time humankind was throwing off the millstones of religious dogmatism and political despotism. Paine essentially believed that the rights of man encompassed, "...all the intellectual rights, or rights of the mind, and also all those rights of acting as an individual for his own comfort and happiness, which are not injurious ... Read More
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My fourteen year old actually finds these essays humorous in light of what is currently going on within our society. While I realize that common sense is not something that is highly valued within our education system, it is highly necessary for running a government. Thumbs up. Share these ideals and thoughts with your children!
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This little paperback is conveniently sized and conveniently priced. Were it not for the bothersome introduction, I would have gladly given it five stars. As it stands, however, I could do without radical leftist Sidney Hook's presumptuous introduction, wherein he arrogantly dictates to me precisely how I should read Thomas Paine, and in what manner Mr. Paine is correct and incorrect in his reasoning. Ripping out the introduction or going over it line-by-line with a black sharpie would be a marked improvement ... Read More
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I have read much on the history of our beautiful country and also of other countries as well.
This book by Thomas Paine "COMMON SENSE AND THE RIGHTS OF MAN" is an extraordinary out line of how man should form his government and live in harmony with his fellow man in this world. Thomas Paine, one of our founding fathers, is a man that saw the rights of man being trampled on by England. His writing is plain common sense, of which many of us fail to utilize, about what a government should be and ... Read More
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