Thomas Paine and the Promise of America e-bog

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 "e;The sun never shined on a cause of greater worth,"e; "e;We have it in our power to begin the world over again,"e; and "e;These are the times that try men's souls"e;-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.