Showing how Paine turned Americans into radicals, the author presents the nation\'s democratic story with wit, subtlety, and, above all, passion.
Kaye demonstrates, articulated an American identity charged with exceptional purpose and promise..
Through writings like Common Sense --and words such as The sun never shined on a cause of greater worth, We have it in our power to begin the world over again, and These are the times that try men\'s souls--he not only turned America\'s colonial rebellion into a revolutionary war but, as Harvey J.
Thomas Paine was one of the most remarkable political writers of the modern world and the greatest radical of a radical age.
Paine was one of the most remarkable political writers of the modern world and the greatest radical of a radical age.
Showing how Paine turned Americans into radicals, the author presents the nation\'s democratic story with wit, subtlety, and, above all, passion
