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Common Sense (Hardcover)
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Common Sense (Hardcover)
Series: The Macat Library
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Thomas Paine's 1776 Common Sense has secured an unshakeable place
as one of history's most explosive and revolutionary books. A slim
pamphlet published at the beginning of the American Revolution, it
was so widely read that it remains the all-time best selling book
in US history. An impassioned argument for American independence
and for democratic government, Common Sense can claim to have
helped change the face of the world more than almost any other
book. But Paine's pamphlet is also a masterclass in critical
thinking, demonstrating how the reasoned construction of arguments
can be reinforced by literary skill and passion. Paine is perhaps
more famous as a stylist than as a constructor of arguments, but
Common Sense marries the best elements of good reasoning to its
polemic. Moving systematically from the origins of government,
through a criticism of monarchy, and on to the possibilities for
future democratic government in an independent America, Paine
neatly lays out a series of persuasive reasons to fight for
independence and a new form of government. Indeed, as the
pamphlet's title suggested, to do so was nothing more than 'common
sense.'
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