Common Sense and Other Writings (Barnes & Noble Classics Series)
Author: Thomas Pain
Common Sense and Other Writings, by Thomas Paine, is part of the Barnes & Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of Barnes & Noble Classics:
Though he did not emigrate from England to the American colonies until 1774, just a few months before the Revolutionary War began, Thomas Paine had an enormous impact on that war and the new nation that emerged from it. Common Sense, the instantly popular pamphlet he published in January 1776, argued that the goal of the struggle against theBritish should be not simply tax reform, as many were calling for, but complete independence. His rousing, radical voice was balanced by the equally independence-minded but more measured tones of Thomas Jefferson, who wrote the Declaration of Independence later that year.
In later works, such as The Rights of Man, The Age of Reason, and other selections included in this volume, Paine proved himself a visionary moralist centuries ahead of his time. He believed that every human has the natural right to life's necessities and that government's role should be to provide for those in dire need. An impassioned opponent of all forms of slavery, he understood that no one in poverty is truly free, a lesson still to be learned by many of our leaders today.
Joyce Appleby, Professor Emerita at the University of California, Los Angeles, has followed the trajectory of American nation-building in her books Capitalism and a New Social Order: The Republican Vision of the 1790s, Inheriting the Revolution: The First Generation of Americans, Thomas Jefferson, and A Restless Past: History and the American Public.
When Character Was King: A Story of Ronald Reagan
Author: Peggy Noonan
No one has ever captured Ronald Reagan like Peggy Noonan. In When Character Was King, Noonan brings her own reflections on Reagan to bear as well as new stories - from Presidents George W. Bush and his father, George H. W. Bush, his Secret Service men and White House colleagues, his wife, his daughter Patti Davis, and his close friends - to reveal the true nature of a man even his opponents now view as a maker of big history. Marked by incisive wit and elegant prose, When Character Was King will both enlighten and move readers. It may well be the last word on Ronald Reagan, not only as a leader but as a man.
Table of Contents:
Acknowledgments | vii |
"I Remember You" | 1 |
All Presidents Come from Something | 17 |
Movie Star | 31 |
And Here He Becomes the Man He Was | 54 |
"Honey, Roy Rogers Is Here" | 79 |
The Ranch | 103 |
Everything Changes | 119 |
The Things They Carried | 135 |
Executive Mansion | 160 |
Grace Under Pressure | 167 |
"Funny How History Works" | 182 |
The Power of Truth | 196 |
Tough Choices | 215 |
Comedy | 228 |
Rosty, Rush, Reagan | 240 |
Strong Women | 254 |
Big Trouble | 263 |
Big Triumph | 280 |
Dubya Was Watching | 299 |
The Old Man of St. CloudRoad | 311 |
SelectBibliography | 329 |
Index | 331 |
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