The Thomas Paine Reader - Common Sense, The American Crisis, Rights of Man, The Age of Reason, and Agrarian Justice

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Acerca del autor: Thomas Paine (1737-1809) was an English-born political writer, revolutionary, inventor, and advocate of republican government whose works influenced both the American and French Revolutions. After emigrating to Philadelphia in 1774, he published Common Sense, the enormously influential pamphlet that urged the American colonies to declare independence from Britain. During the Revolutionary War, his American Crisis essays encouraged resistance at moments when defeat appeared possible. Paine later traveled to Europe, supported the French Revolution, served in the French National Convention, and narrowly escaped execution during the Reign of Terror.Paine defended representative government, universal natural rights, religious liberty, progressive taxation, public assistance, and greater economic security for ordinary people. His major works include Common Sense, The American Crisis, Rights of Man, The Age of Reason, and Agrarian Justice. His attacks on monarchy and organized religion made him one of the most celebrated and reviled writers of his age, but his clear prose and uncompromising commitment to reason, liberty, and human equality secured his place among the foundational political thinkers of the modern democratic world.