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Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Series Preface -- Introduction -- PART I SURVEY OF THE LITERATURE -- 1 Thomas Paine: A Survey of Research and Criticism since 1945 -- 2 The Lifelong Education of Thomas Paine (1737-1809): Some Reflections upon his Acquaintance Among Books -- PART II TOM PAINE AND THE HISTORY OF POLITICAL IDEAS -- 3 The Moral Economics of Tom Paine -- 4 Thomas Paine "Prepare in Time an Asylum for Mankind" -- 5 A Note on Common Sense and Christian Eschatology -- 6 Nature and Revolution in Paine's Common Sense -- 7 From Liberalism to Radicalism: Tom Paine's Rights of Man -- 8 Paine and Burke: God, Nature and Politics -- 9 Thomas Paine: Ransom, Civil Peace, and the Natural Right to Welfare -- 10 Paine's Agrarian Justice (1796) and the Secularisation of Natural Jurisprudence -- PART III PAINE AND REPUBLICAN IDEOLOGY -- 11 Thomas Paine's Apostles: Radical Emigrés and the Triumph of Jeffersonian Republicanism -- 12 Radical Lockeanism in American Political Culture -- 13 English Republicanism in the 1790s -- PART IV PAINE AND THE SOCIAL HISTORY OF IDEAS -- 14 Ideology and the Origins of Liberal America -- 15 The American Revolution and the Transformation of English Republicanism -- 16 Religion and Radicalism: English Political Theory in the Age of Revolution -- 17 Paine, America, and the "Modernization" of Political Consciousness -- PART V LITERARY ANALYSES OF PAINE'S WRITINGS -- 18 The Commonalities of Common Sense -- 19 Style and Identification in Common Sense -- 20 Familial Politics: Thomas Paine and the Killing of the King, 1776 -- 21 Tom Paine and American Loneliness -- 22 Parasiting America: The Radical Function of Heterogeneity in Thomas Paine's Early Writings -- PART VI PAINE IN RADICAL HISTORY -- 23 Radicals and the Making of American Democracy: Toward a New Narrative of American History

These may be "the times that try men's souls," as President Roosevelt recently told the nation, but they may also be the times when free and courageous men may push forward toward the better society of which Thomas Paine dreamed when he pleaded with the colonists for unity in the cause of freedom. When Paine first wrote those words 165 years ago, America had an opportunity to break away from the tyranny of Europe. But Paine was not content to win a war of independence for America alone. Like many today, he talked of world revolution aimed at the tyranny of the few over the many. He, too, argued that men—all men—should have an equal opportunity to shape their own destinies and the destiny of the world in which they found themselves. In an era when men are fighting to preserve and extend a heritage of freedom, it would be well to reëxamine the ideas of Paine, whose writings inspired men of his day in America, in England, and in France to work and to die that they might be free.