The book is concerned with the question why Paine chose the most unlikely of all possible careers: that of the revolutionary, restless, never satisfied, ready to play a part in the great revolution of the French, whose language he did not understand.
Paine's writings, his letters, contemporary documents shed some light on this iridiscent personality who was all too often slandered but also sometimes admired as «America's godfather».
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Thesis
Sprache
Verlagsort
Frankfurt a.M.
Deutschland
Zielgruppe
Editions-Typ
Maße
Höhe: 21 cm
Breite: 14.8 cm
Gewicht
ISBN-13
978-3-631-44800-7 (9783631448007)
Schweitzer Klassifikation
The Author: Walter Woll was born in Saarwellingen/Germany in 1956. From 1978 to 1983 he studied English, Geography and German at the University of Trier and the University of Calgary/Alta/Canada. Since 1985 he works as a teacher.
Contents: After a survey of Paine's changing image in the last two decades, a rough sketch of his life is drawn. In a next step the author investigates possible personal motives such as greed, egotism and hatred. An important role, according to the author, must be attributed to Paine's deism.
