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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 320.51
EAN: 9780452009219
ISBN: 0452009219
Label: Plume
Manufacturer: Plume
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 288
Publication Date: November 01, 1984
Publisher: Plume
Sales Rank: 663597
Studio: Plume
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Rating: - Every generation and age must be as free to act for itself
This was required reading for a graduate course in the history of the French Revolution.For Thomas Paine, the eighteenth century was the Age of Enlightenment because for the first time humankind was throwing off the millstones of religious dogmatism and political despotism.Paine essentially believed that the rights of man encompassed, "...all the intellectual rights, or rights of the mind, and also all those rights of acting as an individual for his own comfort and happiness, which are not injurious ... Read More
Rating: - classic American
My fourteen year old actually finds these essays humorous in light of what is currently going on within our society.While I realize that common sense is not something that is highly valued within our education system, it is highly necessary for running a government.Thumbs up.Share these ideals and thoughts with your children!
Rating:  - Good collection, poor introduction
This little paperback is conveniently sized and conveniently priced. Were it not for the bothersome introduction, I would have gladly given it five stars. As it stands, however, I could do without radical leftist Sidney Hook's presumptuous introduction, wherein he arrogantly dictates to me precisely how I should read Thomas Paine, and in what manner Mr. Paine is correct and incorrect in his reasoning. Ripping out the introduction or going over it line-by-line with a black sharpie would be a marked improvement ... Read More
Rating: - Freedom and Rights of man
I have read much on the history of our beautiful country and also of other countries as well.
This book by Thomas Paine "COMMON SENSE AND THE RIGHTS OF MAN" is an extraordinary out line of how man should form his government and live in harmony with his fellow man in this world.Thomas Paine, one of our founding fathers, is a man that saw the rights of man being trampledon by England.His writing is plain common sense, of which many of us fail to utilize, about what a government should be and ... Read More
Rating: - The Man Who Started it All
Thomas Paine is the Main Man who started the two Revolutionary Wars, first America which took 7 years then afterwards France starts her own Revolution with Thomas Paine's help but hers is won almost overnight.Thomas Paine not only started these Revolutions but he participated in both.This book is a real page turner that you won't be able to put down!
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