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Hill and Wang
Pub. Date
2005
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Thomas Paine was one of the most remarkable political writers of the modern world and the greatest radical of a radical age. Through writings like Common Sense--and words such as "The sun never shined on a cause of greater worth," "We have it in our power to begin the world over again," and "These are the times that try men's souls"--He not only turned America's colonial rebellion into a revolutionary war but, as Harvey J. Kaye demonstrates, articulated...
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"Iconoclastic historian and bestselling author Kevin Phillips punctures the myth that 1776 was the watershed year of the American Revolution. He suggests that the great events and confrontations of 1775--Congress's belligerent economic ultimatums to Britain, New England's 'rage militaire,' the exodus of British troops and expulsion of royal governors up and down the seaboard, and the new provincial congresses and hundreds of local committees that...
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George Washington novels volume 1
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Newt Gingrich and William R. Forstchen chronicle the political and military careers of three important Americans, including their pivotal roles in the American Revolutionary War. Here, Gingrich and Forstchen reveal how Thomas Paine championed the case for freedom, while General George Washington and Private Jonathan Van Dorn fought the good fight on the front lines.
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Atlantic Monthly Press
Pub. Date
c2006
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Christopher Hitchens, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of God Is Not Great has been called a Tom Paine for our times, and in this addition to the Books that Changed the World Series, he vividly introduces Paine and his Declaration of the Rights of Man, the world's foremost defense of democracy. Inspired by his outrage at Edmund Burke's attack on the French Revolution, Paine's text is a passionate defense of man's inalienable rights, and the...
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Distributed to the trade by Holtzbrinck Publishers
Pub. Date
2005
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Paul Collins travels the globe piecing together the missing body and soul of one of our most enigmatic founding fathers: Thomas Paine.
A typical book about an American founding father doesn't start at a gay piano bar and end in a sewage ditch. But then, Tom Paine isn't your typical founding father. A firebrand rebel and a radical on the run, Paine alone claims a key role in the development of three modern democracies. In death, his story turns truly...
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John Adams told Thomas Jefferson that "history is to ascribe the American Revolution to Thomas Paine." Thomas Edison called him "the equal of Washington in making American liberty possible." He was a founder of both the United States and the French Revolution. He invented the phrase, "The United States of America." He rose from abject poverty in working-class England to the highest levels of the era's intellectual elite. And yet, by the end of his...
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Basic Books
Pub. Date
[2014]
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"In The Great Debate Yuval Levin explores the origins of the familiar left/right divide in American politics by examining the views of the men who best represent each side of that debate: Edmund Burke and Thomas Paine. In a groundbreaking exploration of the origins of our political order, Levin shows that our political divide did not originate (as many historians argue) in the French Revolution, but rather in the Anglo-American debate about that revolution....
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Macmillan Audio
Pub. Date
2010
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A riveting, personal look at one of our country's first heroes in the second captivating novel of the George Washington series by Newt Gingrich and William R. Forstchen, the New York Times bestselling authors of To Try Men's Souls
It's the winter of 1777, a year after Washington's triumphant surprise attack on Trenton, and the battered, demoralized Continental Army retreats from Philadelphia. At Valley Forge, they discover that their requests for...
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Macmillan Audio
Pub. Date
p2009
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Newt Gingrich and William R. Forstchen chronicle the political and military careers of three important Americans, including their pivotal roles in the American Revolutionary War. Here, Gingrich and Forstchen reveal how Thomas Paine championed the case for freedom, while General George Washington and Private Jonathan Van Dorn fought the good fight on the front lines.
20) Glenn Beck's common sense: the case against an out-of-control government, inspired by Thomas Paine
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Threshold Editions
Pub. Date
2009
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Glenn Beck revisits Paine's powerful treatise with one purpose: to galvanize Americans to see past government's easy solutions, two-party monopoly, and illogical methods and take back our great country.