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    <body><![CDATA[This collection of works by Thomas Paine, consisting of <em>Common Sense</em>, <em>The Rights of Man</em>, excerpts of <em>The Crisis</em>, <em>The Age of Reason</em> and <em>Agrarian Justice</em>, is an excellent opportunity to visit the Enlightenment era thought of one of revolutionary America's most incendiary authors.<br/><br/><em>Common Sen...</em><a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/50313535">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Required reading - well worth the time - and quite entertaining.<br/><br/>Favorite quote:<br/><br/>&quot;One of the strongest natural proofs of the folly of hereditary right in kings, is, that nature disapproves it, otherwise she would not so frequently turn it into ridicule by giving mankind an...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/69994890">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[&quot;Common Sense&quot;: A true political and philosophical masterpiece! Written in plain english and will garner a response from anyone who reads it. I asked a person if they ever read &quot;Common Sense&quot; and he told me that he read it in high school. When I mentioned they should read it agai...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/25995336">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[A great, but biased collection of his works. I say biased, cause the person in the intro says we should takes Thomas Paine's limited government ideals seriously. The same is done in signets anti-federalist papers book. That disclaimer aside this is a great collection of works from the only &quot;for...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/80274472">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Although Thomas Paine was a bit of a firebrand, he was certainly eloquent and able.  His ideas presage the New Deal, United Nations, and the welfare state.  Not sure if these are good things or not, but he definitely has the good of mankind at heart.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I don't think this work is meant to stand alone. It should be read in contrast to the political and philosophical work of the time.<br/><br/>His ideas on human rights (male, white land owners) are born out of a space where people were being denied the ability to actively participate in governing s...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/34540179">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I don't know how to review books like this one.  On a personal level I liked it but did struggle with some parts of it-- more because I find that 18th century language is a little off-putting for me.  However, I am so glad that I was forced to read this book for class.<br/><br/>It is almost a clic...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/31904064">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Enjoyable bit of history. Generally, I imagine this type of book to be dry and uninteresting, but the passion in Paine's writing makes it very readable.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Ongoing interest in the founders and individual agency as the foundation of a good society.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[If this doesn't make you excited about being an American, not much will. ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I'm seeking knowledge from the men and women who came before me.  That's why I read so many different views of the same subject.  I rarely read only one biography, etc., of a person or a subject.  I really enjoy learning about the law, especially civil rights, and Constitutional law.  I know the Bib...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/35527948">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Good Ideas, but man is not how he describes him.  Man is flawed, people do what they are incentivized to do. It is not good national policy to trust other countries to do what is best for you.  Even the revolution he was defending eventually cost more than what he would even put up with, especially ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/22248625">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Poised to read again after hearing an interview on Bill Moyer's show where a historian focused on Paine discussed how important Paine is to our national dialogue, to our democratic experiment, and how the right wing had co-opted so much of his writing. ]]></body>
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