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Common Sense Paperback - 2005
by Paine, Thomas
- Used
Description
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Details
- Title Common Sense
- Author Paine, Thomas
- Binding Paperback
- Edition [ Edition: Repri
- Condition Used - Very Good
- Pages 112
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Penguin Publishing Group, E Rutherford, New Jersey, U.S.A.
- Date 2005-09-06
- Bookseller's Inventory # 3129880-6
- ISBN 9780143036258 / 0143036254
- Weight 0.19 lbs (0.09 kg)
- Dimensions 7.08 x 4.3 x 0.32 in (17.98 x 10.92 x 0.81 cm)
- Ages 18 to UP years
- Grade levels 13 - UP
- Reading level 1330
- Library of Congress subjects Political science, United States - Politics and government -
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2005047728
- Dewey Decimal Code 320.011
Summary
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Published anonymously in 1776, six months before the Declaration of Independence, Thomas Paine’s Common Sense was a radical and impassioned call for America to free itself from British rule and set up an independent republican government. Savagely attacking hereditary kingship and aristocratic institutions, Paine urged a new beginning for his adopted country in which personal freedom and social equality would be upheld and economic and cultural progress encouraged. His pamphlet was the first to speak directly to a mass audience—it went through fifty-six editions within a year of publication—and its assertive and often caustic style both embodied the democratic spirit he advocated, and converted thousands of citizens to the cause of American independence.