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Tom Paine - The Greatest Exile (Hardcover)
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Tom Paine - The Greatest Exile (Hardcover)
Series: Routledge Library Editions: Political Thought and Political Philosophy
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First published in 1985. In the late autumn of 1774 at the age of
37 Tom Paine arrived in Philadelphia. Eighteen months later he had
established himself as a seminal figure in the Independence
movement. It was the start of a career in which he became the first
US Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs; was outlawed from
England by Pitt for the publication of the second part of the
Rights of Man; delivered a final plea for the life of Louis XVI in
the National Convention of 1794; was imprisoned in the Luxembourg,
and sentenced to death by Robespierre. After a sad and lonely death
in New Rochelle Cobbett brought back his bones to England: 'to
light a taper for liberty.' Yet Paine remains a man without a past;
a man who seemingly burst on the world scene as a full-blown
radical at 37 years of age. No one had attempted to explore and
interpret the critical, shaping influences of his early and middle
life. Yet such background is crucial to explaining all the rest.
Without a clear understanding of his Quaker inheritance; of his
childhood years in Thetford; of his early philosophical and
political apprenticeship in London; and of the six formative years
he spent at Lewes, the later man and his radicalism are totally
incomprehensible. Thus, the author's objective is to place Paine in
his times; to interpret the evolution of his political, social and
theological ideas. Paine is little more than a cardboard cut-out
moving through history in the majority of biographies that have
already been published. This book sees the world through Paine's
own eyes and provides a human interpretation not only of 'the Age
of Revolution' but also of 'the maker of revolutions' himself. To
Napoleon, Paine was the man to whom: 'a statue in gold should be
erected in every town'; to Theodore Roosevelt he was 'that filthy
little atheist'; to Michael Foot: 'the greatest exile that has ever
left England's shores.' To understand the thinking of a man who can
provoke such reactions, it is necessary to understand both the man
and the times through which he lived. This title will be of great
interest to students of history, politics, and philosophy.
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