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To explain why tom paine, an unrelenting failure in england became an overnight success in america, foner comes at him from an unusual vantage point. Among friends and enemies alike, paine earned a reputation as a notorious pamphleteer, one of the greatest political. Never have we had such an exquisite warp of the ins and outs of political life in the 1830s and 40s laid across the weft of lincolns individual trajectory. Since its publication in 1976, tom paine and revolutionary america has been recognized as a classic study of the career of the foremost political pamphleteer of the age of revolution, and a model of how to integrate the political, intellectual, and social history of the struggle for americanindependence. It gives us tom paine, carbuncles, extreme egotism, and all. So begins john keanes magnificent biography of one. Englishborn radical journalist thomas paine, who in 1774 immigrated to. It was placed there in 1943 by voluntary contributions from u. Mideighteenthcentury punishment was an ugly sight to paine s eyes, as it is to ours. A political life, calls paine the greatest public figure of his generation.
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