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Kuuluu näihin sarjoihinVery Interesting People (OUP 18)
Definitive, concise, and very interesting...From William Shakespeare to Winston Churchill, the Very Interesting People series provides authoritative bite-sized biographies of Britain's most fascinating historical figures - people whose influence and importance have stood the test of time.Each book in the series is based upon the biographical entry from the world-famous Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.The Very Interesting People series includes the following titles:1.William Shakespeare by Peter Holland2. George Eliot by Rosemary Ashton3. Charles Dickens by Michael Slater4. Charles Darwin by Adrian Desmond, James Moore, and Janet Browne5. Isaac Newton by Richard S.Westfall6. Elizabeth I by Patrick Collinson7. George III by John Cannon8. Benjamin Disraeli by Jonathan Parry9. Christopher Wren by Kerry Downes10. John Ruskin by Robert Hewison11. James Joyce by Bruce Stewart12. John Milton by Gordon Campbell13. Jane Austen by Marilyn Butler14. Henry VIII by Eric Ives15. Queen Victoria by K. D. Reynolds and H. C. G. Matthew16. Winston Churchill by Paul Addison17. Oliver Cromwell by John Morrill18. Thomas Paine by Mark Philp19. J. M. W. Turner by Luke Herrmann20. William and Mary by Tony Claydon and W. A. Speck Kirjastojen kuvailuja ei löytynyt. |
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Rousing words like these would not be heard today even on the loudest of cable news talk shows. Yet, here we are in one of a set of letters to Americans - from this Englishman - reading a call to action. It is said that George Washington had this read to his troops.
If you read his writings today, you may want to delete any evidence on your smartphone. Was he a libertarian? He wanted the smallest government. Was he a conservative? He wanted change and he wanted it now. Was he a socialist? an internationalist?
Yes, he apparently had a significant ego (maybe he just read his own writings at times) and his nationalist loyalties were a bit scattered through his life, but boy, he could arouse his readers.
So where does this sort of life get you? A few months in a French jail; six people at your funeral and your own remains get lost.
Even more than his politics (he really aimed his calls to people across nations), he wanted a base income - a kind of minimum wage - voting even for those not owning property (this was just too much for John Adams) and, hang on, he railed against all organized religions. He claimed to believe in one God but went after the Bible held tightly to the bosoms of those around him.
So who wants to write about this guy? Not many. Mark Philp is a reluctant scholar who seems to have drawn a short straw for this Oxford University Press edition of their Very Interesting People series.
The late Christopher Hitchens champions Paine. However, you can hear crickets when Paine's name comes up from many others.
Maybe it is time to read again his rousing writings and try to find the man. ( )