Introduction: Survey Of The Literature: A. Owen Aldridge (1975), Thomas Paine: a survey of research and criticism since 1945; Caroline Robbins (1983), The lifelong education of Thomas Paine, (1737-1809): some reflections upon his acquaintance among books; Tom Paine And The History Of Political Ideas: William Christian (1973), The moral economics of Tom Paine; Bernard Bailyn (1990) Personalities and themes in the struggle for American independence; Stephen Newman (1978), A note on Common Sense and Christian eschatology; Jack Fruchtman (1989), Nature and revolution in Paine's Common Sense; Gary Kates (1989), From liberalism to radicalism: Tom Paine's Rights of Man; Ian Harris (1992), Paine and Burke: God, nature and politics; John W. Seaman (1988), Thomas Paine: ransom, civil peace, and the natural right to welfare; Gregory Claeys (1987), Paine's agrarian justice and the secularisation of natural jurisprudence; Paine And Republican Ideology: Michael Durey (1987), Thomas Paine's apostles: radical emigres and the triumph of Jeffersonian republicanism; Richard J. Ellis (1992), Radical lockeanism in American political culture; Mark Philp (1998), English republicanism in the 1790s; Paine And The Social History Of Ideas: Gordon S. Wood (1987), Ideology and the origins of liberal America; Arthur Sheps (1975), The American revolution and the transformation of English republicanism; Isaac Kramnick (1977), Religion and radicalism: English political theory in the age of revolution; Jack P. Greene (1978), Paine, America, and the 'Modernization' of political consciousness; Literary Analyses Of Paine's Writings: Robert A. Ferguson (2000), The commonalities of common sense; Elaine Ginsberg (1977), Style and identification in Common Sense; Winthrop D. Jordan (1973), Familial politics: Thomas Paine and the killing of the king, 1776; Martin Roth (1987), Tom Paine and American loneliness; Molly Anne Rothenberg (1992), Parasiting America: the radical function of heterogeneity in Thomas Paine's early writings; Paine In Radical History: Eric Foner (1976), Tom Paine's republic: radical ideology and social change; Harvey J. Kaye (1995), Radicals and the making of American democracy: toward a new narrative of American history; Ian Dyck (1993), Local attachments, national identities and world citizenship in the thought of Thomas Paine; Index.