Man of Reason: The Life of Thomas PainePickle Partners Publishing, 02/12/2018 - 343 páginas HERE IS THE FIRST twentieth-century biography of Thomas Paine to be based on original research in France and England as well as in this country. If for no other reason than that, Man of Reason would be a valuable book, because few men in history have been so maligned and misunderstood as this fiery defender of the rights of man. This biography will do much to dispense the mythology that has gathered about the name of Thomas Paine. The author re-creates Paine’s stormy life as a paradoxical one of alternating acclaim and rejection by a fickle public in three countries. The first to call publicly for American independence and a constitutional convention, Thomas Paine was given no voice in drawing up either the Declaration of Independence or the Constitution. He campaigned for popular rights in England; and as his books circulated by the thousands, the British government hounded him from the country. In France, he sat in the National Convention, then narrowly escaped the guillotine for allegedly “anti-revolutionary” sympathies. For eight years he worked to promote Franco-American friendship and was denounced for his efforts. Basing this biography on his thorough research of newly discovered manuscript and printed sources, Alfred Owen Aldridge has been able to give important new insight into the man who was one of the most eloquent defenders of humanity but how died in lonely obscurity, unrecognized and unrewarded. “The strength of Aldridge’s book lies in its thorough investigation of primary sources. The author worked to good purpose in French and British archives, not just the repositories in Paris and London, but also in various provincial collections. What Paine’s life most needed was a scholar who could find his way around in European libraries. The result is a book that supersedes all previous biographies of Paine.”—James Woodress, Science & Society |
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The Modern Tacitus 31 | |
The Deane Affair 45 | |
State Clerk and Diplomatic Agent 55 | |
A Bonus a Bank and a Bridge 71 | |
Feud with Cheetham 216 | |
Last Days 219 | |
Recapitulation 222 | |
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS 226 | |
NOTES 227 | |
A Political Bridge 83 | |
The Rights of Man 94 | |
A Republican Manifesto for France 102 | |
The Revolution of the World 106 | |
Continuation of The Rights of Man 110 | |
Where Liberty Is Not 119 | |
The Rights of Man on Trial 128 | |
A King on Trial 132 | |
A Firebrand an Trial 136 | |
In Luxembourg Prison 144 | |
Return to the Convention 155 | |
The Age of Reason 160 | |
Friendship with Monroe 166 | |
Amateur Diplomat Once More 174 | |
Relations with the Directory 178 | |
Baltimore and Washington 191 | |
New Rochelle and New York 196 | |
Jarvis and Carpenter 204 | |
The Defense of New York 211 | |
STATE CLERK AND DIPLOMATIC AGENT 230 | |
A BONUS A BANK AND A BRIDGE 231 | |
A POLITICAL BRIDGE 232 | |
THE RIGHTS OF MAN 232 | |
A REPUBLICAN MANIFESTO FOR FRANCE 233 | |
A FIREBRAND ON TRIAL 235 | |
IN LUXEMBOURG PRISON 236 | |
RETURN TO THE CONVENTION 236 | |
THE AGE OF REASON 236 | |
FRIENDSHIP WITH MONROE 237 | |
RELATIONS WITH THE DIRECTORY 237 | |
BALTIMORE AND WASHINGTON 238 | |
NEW ROCHELLE AND NEW YORK 238 | |
JARVIS AND CARPENTER 239 | |
THE DEFENSE OF NEW YORK 239 | |
RECAPITULATION 240 | |
REQUEST FROM THE PUBLISHER 241 | |
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