Thomas Paine and the Literature of Revolution
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: June 27, 2005
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 216
ISBN-13: 9780521841153
Subjects: American studies; History of ideas, intellectual history; Liberalism & centre democratic ideologies; United States; History: American; History & Theory - General; United States - Colonial Period; History; History - U.S; Revolutionaries; USA; Paine, Thomas,; United States - 18th Century; History / United States / Colonial Period (1600-1775); 1737-1809; 18th century; Political science; Political scientists
First sentence: Forty-five years after the Revolution, in an 1821 letter to a friend, Thomas Jefferson commented on the remarkable literary skills of his old friend and sometime political ally, Thomas Paine: "No writer has exceeded Paine in ease and familiarity of style, in perspicuity of expression, happiness of elucidation, and in simple and unassuming language."