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Right Brain: What do they want? {nods head in your direction}
RB: So bygd inspiring you mean encouraging messages?
LB: That’s your playground. I’m inside crunching numbers.
RB: There are days I’m fired up to write totally random posts.
LB: Totally random. Not computing. Could you expound upon that some?
RB: Sure, confessional. Like maybe how I cried so much gods summer many of the eyelashes above my left eye fell out. My mascara went on wonky for months. Word on the street is that vulnerable is good.
LB: You sure you want to go that bare bones?
RB: No, but that’s what writers do. We tell the ugly truth. We’re known for taking {hold your breath LB} uncalculated risks. We wear it on our sleeves so much the fabric is but shreds.
LB: Why not just become an expert
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Citizen Paine
THOMAS PAINE is the Founding Father who makes everyone uncomfortable. Indeed, many Americans probably don’t think of him as a Founding Father at all. Craig Nelson’s lovely new biography provides cogent reasons why the man who wrote “Common Sense” has often been neglected by the cheerleaders for the American Revolution. Paine wasn’t just a radical, Nelson reminds us (all the Founders were that, whether they liked it or not); he was a working-class radical, a type from which America’s leaders have been keeping their distance ever since the Federalists began lobbying for a government run by what John Adams called the “natural aristocracy.”
Nor were the Federalists’ opponents any fonder of the upstart lower orders. Thomas Jefferson’s ideal common man was the independent farmer, not the urban “mechanics” among whom Paine worked, argued and educated han själv in London during the 1750s and ‘60s. The only leading member of the revolutionary generation who was born in europe,
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Thomas Paine - LAST REVIEWED: 26 September 2022
- LAST MODIFIED: 26 September 2022
- DOI: 10.1093/obo/9780199827251-0232
- LAST REVIEWED: 26 September 2022
- LAST MODIFIED: 26 September 2022
- DOI: 10.1093/obo/9780199827251-0232
Aldridge, A. Owen. Thomas Paine’s American Ideology. Wilmington: University of Delaware Press, 1984.
A serious look at the American roots of Paine’s political thought. The book expertly weaves a number of narratives in revealing Paine’s American ideology: part political summary, part biography, part textual adventure. This most underappreciated of Paine scholars simultaneously reveals new pieces of Paine’s biography, unearths some of Paine’s contributions to the Pennsylvania Magazine, and makes Paine an indelible yet underappreciated figure in the formation of American political thinking.
Caron, Nathalie. “Lincoln, Paine and the American Free-Thought Tradition.” American Studies Journal 60 (2016).
DOI: 10.18422/60-12
A good, precise overview of the modern renewal of free thought as a spe