num_pages: 336
description: 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 an American identity charged with exceptional purpose and promise.
language: English
title: Thomas Paine and the Promise of America
titlecomplete: Thomas Paine and the Promise of America
genres: American, Politics, Biography, Philosophy, United States, American History, Nonfiction, American Revolution, History, Biography Memoir
ratings_count: 328
series: Oxford Portraits
publisher: Hill and Wang