Rights of Man, Thomas Paine
Rights of Man, Thomas Paine
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Rights of Man

Author: Thomas Paine

Narrator: Bernard Mayes

Unabridged: 10 hr 12 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 02/07/2012


Synopsis

Written in the late eighteenth century as a reply to Edmund Burkes Reflections on the French Revolution, Thomas Paines Rights of Man is unquestionably one of the great classics on the subject of democracy. A vindication of the French Revolution and a critique of the British system of government, it defended the dignity of the common man in all countries against those who would discard him as one of the swinish multitude. Paine created a language of modern politics that brought important issues to the working classes. Employing direct, vehement prose, Paine defends popular rights, national independence, revolutionary war, and economic growthall of which were considered, at the time, to be dangerous and even seditious issues. His vast influence is due in large measure to his eloquent literary style, noted for its poignant metaphors, vigor, and rational directness.

Author Bio

Thomas Paine (1737-1809) was an author, radical, inventor, intellectual, revolutionary, and one of the Founding Fathers of the United States. A participant in both the American and French Revolutions and in the governments that first arose from them, Paine is best remembered as the highly popular pamphleteer whose incendiary Common Sense was largely responsible for motivating the American colonists to declare independence. His other notable contributions are Rights of Man, The Age of Reason, Agrarian Justice, and The American Crisis, a pro-revolutionary pamphlet series.

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