Thomas Paine
Birth date: February 09, 1737
Died: June 08, 1809
Thomas Paine's Books
The reader should be made aware that I am biased for two reasons: one, anyone who tries to make capitalism and a representative democracy look good to me will fail, and two, literature written before the turn of the century has always been a tough pill to swallow. After thirteen years of reading and...
AcknowledgementsIntroductionNote on the TextsSelect BibliographyA Chronology of Thomas Paine--Common Sense--American Crisis I--American Crisis XIII--Letter to Jefferson--Rights of Man--Rights of Man Part the Second--Letter Addressed to the Addressers, on the Late Proclamation--Dissertation on the Fi...
This is a classic for a very good reason. Thomas Paine was the mouthpiece for our founding fathers, and for an excellent reason. He was especially gifted at succinct, well thought out arguments. This pamphlet is no exception.
It is one of the most effective pieces of propaganda in the history of the world, and it's quite likely that without it the United States would not have garnered enough popular support to effect independence from England. Because it was so successful despite containing bucketloads of false logic, ri...
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