A Political Biography of Thomas Paine 9781781443422, 1781443424

Speck's biography examines Paine's work afresh, in light of new thinking about the role of religion in the for

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A Political Biography of Thomas Paine
9781781443422, 1781443424

A central figure in Western history and American political thought, Thomas Paine continues to provoke debate among polit

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Thomas Berry (1914–2009) was one of the twentieth century’s most prescient and profound thinkers. The first biography of

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One of the Founding Fathers of the United States, the English-born political activist Thomas Paine was a philosopher, po

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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

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Thomas Paine was the spark that ignited the American Revolution. More than just a founding father, he was a verbal bomb-

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The forgotten story of the nineteenth-century freethinkers and twentieth-century humanists who tried to build their own

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Based on over ten years of archival research, Richard A. Davies's scholarly biography of Haliburton is the first si

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