Thomas Paine
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Paine was born in Thetford, Norfolk, and emigrated to the British American colonies in 1774 with the help of Benjamin Franklin, arriving just in time to participate in the American Revolution. Virtually every American Patriot read his 47-page pamphlet ''Common Sense'', which catalyzed the call for independence from Great Britain. ''The American Crisis'' was a pro-independence pamphlet series. Paine lived in France for most of the 1790s, becoming deeply involved in the French Revolution. While in England, he wrote ''Rights of Man'' (1791), in part a defense of the French Revolution against its critics. His attacks on Anglo-Irish conservative writer Edmund Burke led to a trial and conviction ''in absentia'' in England in 1792 for the crime of seditious libel.
The British government of William Pitt the Younger was worried by the possibility that the French Revolution might spread to Britain and had begun suppressing works that espoused radical philosophies. Paine's work advocated the right of the people to overthrow their government and was therefore targeted with a writ for his arrest issued in early 1792. Paine fled to France in September, despite not being able to speak French, but he was quickly elected to the French National Convention. The Girondins regarded him as an ally; consequently, the Montagnards regarded him as an enemy, especially Marc-Guillaume Alexis Vadier, the powerful president of the Committee of General Security. In December 1793, Vadier arrested Paine and took him to Luxembourg Prison in Paris. While in prison, he continued to work on ''The Age of Reason'' (1793–1794). James Monroe used his diplomatic connections to get Paine released in November 1794.
Paine became notorious because of his pamphlets and attacks on his former allies, who he felt had betrayed him. In ''The Age of Reason'' and other writings, he advocated Deism, promoted reason and freethought, and argued against religion in general and Christian doctrine in particular. In 1796, he published a bitter open letter to George Washington, whom he denounced as an incompetent general and a hypocrite. He published the pamphlet ''Agrarian Justice'' (1797), discussing the origins of property and introducing the concept of a guaranteed minimum income through a one-time inheritance tax on landowners. In 1802, he returned to the U.S. He died on June 8, 1809. Only six people attended his funeral, as he had been ostracized for his ridicule of Christianity and his attacks on the nation's leaders. Provided by Wikipedia
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The age of reason : being an investigation of true and fabulous theology by Paine, Thomas, 1737-1809
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The genuine trial of Thomas Paine : for a libel contained in the second part of Rights of man; at Guildhall, London, Dec. 18, 1792, before Lord Kenyon and a special jury: ... Taken... by Paine, Thomas, 1737-1809
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The American crisis by Paine, Thomas, 1737-1809
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Selected writings of Thomas Paine by Paine, Thomas, 1737-1809
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Rights of man. Part the second : Combining principle and practice. by Paine, Thomas, 1737-1809
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Rights of man by Paine, Thomas, 1737-1809
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Thomas Paine ; representative selections by Paine, Thomas, 1737-1809
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Letter addressed to the addressers, on the late proclamation by Paine, Thomas, 1737-1809
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The age of reason : being an investigation of true and of fabulous theology. Part the second. by Paine, Thomas, 1737-1809
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Rights of man. Part the first : Being an answer to Mr. Burke's attack on the French Revolution. by Paine, Thomas, 1737-1809
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Letter to George Washington, president of the United States of America : On affairs public and private. by Paine, Thomas, 1737-1809
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Rights of man. Part the second : Combining principle and practice. by Paine, Thomas, 1737-1809
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Age of reason : being an investigation of true and fabulous theology by Paine, Thomas, 1737-1809
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Common sense, the crisis, & other writings from the American Revolution by Paine, Thomas, 1737-1809
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Common sense by Paine, Thomas, 1737-1809
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Common sense ; and, The American crisis I by Paine, Thomas, 1737-1809
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Rights of man by Paine, Thomas, 1737-1809
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The age of reason : part I by Paine, Thomas, 1737-1809
New York : London : Macmillan ; Collier Macmillan, 1948
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Trial of Thomas Paine : at Guildhall, before Lord Kenyon. by Paine, Thomas, 1737-1809
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Examination of the passages in the New Testament, quoted from the Old, and called prophecies concerning Jesus Christ : To which is prefixed an essay on dream, shewing by what opera... by Paine, Thomas, 1737-1809
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