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Thomas Paine (February 9, 1737 [O.S. January 29, 1736] – June 8, 1809) was an English-American political activist, philosopher, political theorist, and revolutionary. One of the Founding Fathers of the United States, he authored the two most influential pamphlets at the start of the American Revolution, and he inspired the rebels in 1776 to declare independence from Britain. His ideas reflected Enlightenment-era rhetoric of transnational human rights. He has been called "a corsetmaker by trade, a journalist by profession, and a propagandist by inclination".
Born in Thetford, England, in the county of Norfolk, Paine emigrated to the British American colonies in 1774 with the help of Benjamin Franklin, arriving just in time to participate in the American Revolution. Virtually every rebel read (or listened to a reading of) his powerful pamphlet Common Sense (1776), proportionally the all-time best-selling American title which crystallized the rebellious demand for independence from Great Britain. His The American Crisis (1776–83) was a prorevolutionary pamphlet series. Common Sense was so influential that John Adams said, "Without the pen of the author of Common Sense, the sword of Washington would have been raised in vain."
Christopher Eric Hitchens (13 April 1949 – 15 December 2011) was an English American author, essayist, orator, religious and literary critic, and journalist. Hitchens later spent much of his career in the United States and became a US citizen in 2007.
He contributed to New Statesman, The Nation, The Atlantic, London Review of Books, The Times Literary Supplement, Slate, and Vanity Fair. Hitchens was the author, co-author, editor or co-editor of over 30 books, including five collections of essays, on a range of subjects, including politics, literature, and religion. A staple of talk shows and lecture circuits, his confrontational style of debate made him both a lauded and controversial figure. Known for his contrarian stance on a number of issues, Hitchens criticized such public and generally popular figures as Mother Teresa; Bill Clinton; Henry Kissinger; Princess Diana; and Pope Benedict XVI. He was the elder brother of the conservative journalist and author Peter Hitchens.
Glenn Lee Beck (born February 10, 1964) is an American television personality and radio host, conservative political commentator, author, television network producer, filmmaker, and entrepreneur. He hosts the Glenn Beck Radio Program, a popular nationally syndicated talk-radio show that airs throughout the United States on Premiere Radio Networks and the Glenn Beck television program, which ran from January 2006 to October 2008 on HLN, from January 2009 to June 2011 on the Fox News Channel and currently airs on TheBlaze. Beck has authored six New York Times–bestselling books. Beck is the founder and CEO of Mercury Radio Arts, a multimedia production company through which he produces content for radio, television, publishing, the stage, and the Internet. It was announced on April 6, 2011, that Beck would "transition off of his daily program" on Fox News later in the year but would team with Fox to "produce a slate of projects for Fox News Channel and Fox News' digital properties". Beck's last daily show on the network was June 30, 2011. In 2012, The Hollywood Reporter named Beck on its Digital Power Fifty list.
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Genres: Comedy, Short,Actors: Jay Thomas (actor), Mike Church (actor), Mike Church (producer), Mike Church (director), Jimm Mosher (composer), Jerrod Knight (actor), Madison Church (actress), Bo Walker (actor), Reagan Church (actress), Mike McCann (actor), Sal D'Aleo (actor), James Parker (actor),
Plot: When Thomas Jefferson, rode on his white horse to Independence Hall on 4 July 1776. Declaration of Independence in hand, people lined the streets of Philadelphia and cheered. Then, once inside the chamber, Jefferson and the Founders posed for pictures while each stood in line behind John Hancock to sign the Declaration. America was born. It's a nice story but it's not true. "The Road To Independence" corrects myths, dispels the P.C. revisions and through the Founders Own, Written Words tells their immortal story of sacrifice, revolution and love of a country that didn't even have a name yet. The creation of the United States of America and the writing of the Declaration of Independence. Listeners will hear the voices of the men who made 1776 the greatest year in American History. From meetings at George Washington's Mount Vernon home and the Apollo Room at Williamsburg's Raleigh Tavern, the Road to Independence takes you to historic places where the Fire of America's Independence was kindled yet are mostly unknown. In Addition to the familiar names of Jefferson, Adams, Jefferson and Washington. Listeners, for the first time, will hear the voices of our Unsung Heroes of Independence. Patrick Henry, Richard Henry Lee, John Dickinson, George Mason, Dabney Carr and Edward Rutledge all played crucial roles in America's Independence and their stories of Patriotism are now told. Listeners will find themselves immersed in the roar of Bunker Hill's cannonade, the ringing of the Market Street Bells of Philadelphia and the soaring oratory of Patriots in Independence Hall, the House of Burgesses and even St. John's Church in Richmond VA. Written and narrated by Mike Church, who puts his infamous wit and Patriotic Devotion to the Founders to this little known, All-Important story of America's Founding.
Genres: Documentary,Actors: Steve Nguyen (producer), Henrique Couto (actor), Joseph Pozo (producer), Steve Rudzinski (editor), Steve Rudzinski (actor), Steve Rudzinski (producer), Steve Rudzinski (writer), Steve Rudzinski (director), Nic Pesante (actor), Aeyron Moore (actor), Cathy Rudzinski (producer), Tim Rose (actor), Brad Bendis (actor), Daniel Collins (composer), John Barr Stewart (actor),
Plot: George Washington dubbed America a "Great Experiment." In 2020, the experiment failed as the country descended into a second Civil War with too many sides to count. By 2043, the war is nearing an end and the greatest warriors have risen, Cain and Abel. Whoever recruits the sworn brothers will win the war and unite the nation. But, can Cain and Abel choose the same side?
Genres: Action, Comedy, Drama,Actors: Rene Auberjonois (actor), Mark Joy (actor), Zeljko Ivanek (actor), Diahann Carroll (actress), Mare Winningham (actress), Charles Haid (director), Sam Neill (actor), Joel McNeely (composer), Kevin Conway (actor), Mario Van Peebles (actor), Lawrence Gilliard Jr. (actor), Kelly Rutherford (actress), Michael T. Boyd (costume designer), Craig Anderson (producer), Richard Fullerton (actor),
Plot: The story of the extraordinary, controversial thirty-eight-year relationship between Thomas Jefferson and his slave mistress, Sally Hemings. The teenage Sally begins her unexpected relationship with widower Thomas Jefferson in Paris where he is serving as the U.S. Ambassador to France. After escorting Jefferson's younger daughter on a trans-Atlantic journey to join him in Paris, Sally is soon exposed to a world quite unlike the one in which she has lived as an illiterate slave in Monticello. While Sally serves as a nanny of sorts, Jefferson provides her with an education, fine clothes and opportunities to experience cultural events. She and her brother, James, who works as Jefferson's chef and was also educated by him, delight in the fact that they are free in France-and are treated with respect. It is under these circumstances that Sally and Jefferson become acquainted with one another and begin an affair that will ultimately lead to scandal.
Keywords: 1700s, 1800s, 18th-century, architecture, aunt, bankruptcy, bonnet, brutality, cap, character-name-in-titleActors: Melissa Jo Peltier (director), Melissa Jo Peltier (writer), Randy Travis (actor), Michael York (actor), Peter Coyote (actor), Edward Herrmann (actor), Kevin Kiner (composer), Hal Holbrook (actor), Brian Dennehy (actor), Beau Bridges (actor), Michael York (actor), Burt Reynolds (actor), James Woods (actor), Mark Hufnail (director), Bonnie Peterson (producer),
Genres: Documentary, History,Actors: Jean-Louis Trintignant (actor), Hugues Quester (actor), Ugo Fangareggi (actor), Roger Trapp (actor), Vernon Dobtcheff (actor), Albert Michel (actor), Jean-Louis Barrault (actor), Daniel Gélin (actor), Maurice Jacquemont (actor), Michel Piccoli (actor), Harvey Keitel (actor), Claude Legros (actor), Jean-Claude Brialy (actor), Marcello Mastroianni (actor), Michel Vitold (actor),
Plot: In June of 1791, a group of passengers in a stagecoach find themselves caught up in the events of the French Revolution, when they find themselves in the city of Varennes when revolutionists arrest the fleeing King Louis.
Keywords: 1790s, 18th-century, based-on-novel, capture, costume-drama, disguise, escape, france, french-countryside, french-revolutionActors: Douglass Dumbrille (actor), Kenneth S. Webb (director), Warner Richmond (actor), William B. Courtney (writer), Jack Newton (actor), Henry Pemberton (actor), Gordon Standing (actor), J. Moy Bennett (actor), Allen Lee (actor), Wallace Jones (actor), John Dunton (actor), Frederick J. Spender (actor),
Genres: Drama, Short,http://www.npr.org/2007/10/23/15328527/hitchens-how-paines-rights-changed-the-world 'Thomas Paine's Rights of Man: A Biography' by Christopher Hitchens Christopher Hitchens, the #1 New York Times best-selling author of God Is Not Great has been called a Tom Paine for our times, and in this addition to the Books that Changed the World Series, he vividly introduces Paine and his Declaration of the Rights of Man, the world's foremost defense of democracy. Inspired by his outrage at Edmund Burke's attack on the French Revolution, Paine's text is a passionate defense of man's inalienable rights, and the key to his reputation. Ever since the day of publication in 1791, Declaration of the Rights of Man has been celebrated, criticized, maligned, suppressed, and co-opted, but in Thomas Paine's R...
Common Sense by Thomas Paine, Audiobook, Audio Philosophy. Thomas Paine has a claim to the title The Father of the American Revolution because of Common Sense, the pro-independence monograph pamphlet he anonymously published on January 10, 1776; signed "Written by an Englishman", the pamphlet became an immediate success. It quickly spread among the literate, and, in three months, 100,000 copies (estimated 500,000 total including pirated editions sold during the course of the Revolution) sold throughout the American British colonies (with only two million free inhabitants), making it the best-selling book ever. Paine's original title for the pamphlet was Plain Truth; Paine's friend, pro-independence advocate Benjamin Rush, suggested Common Sense instead. The pamphlet appeared in January 17...
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THE AGE OF REASON by Thomas Paine - FULL Audio Book | Greatest Audio Books - The Age of Reason; Being an Investigation of True and Fabulous Theology is a pamphlet, written by a British and American revolutionary Thomas Paine, that challenges institutionalized religion and the legitimacy of the Bible, the central sacred text of Christianity. Published in three parts in 1794, 1795, and 1807, it was a bestseller in the United States, where it caused a short-lived deistic revival. British audiences, however, fearing increased political radicalism as a result of the French Revolution, received it with more hostility. The Age of Reason presents common deistic arguments; for example, it highlights what Paine saw as corruption of the Christian Church and criticizes its efforts to acquire political...
Brief outline of Thomas Paine and his most famous book, Common Sense.
Chris Hedges, Cornel West, and Richard Wolff talked about the importance of Thomas Paine and his most influential works: Common Sense, The Rights of Man, and The Age of Reason. This event was part of Left Forum, a progressive conference held annually in New York City.
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COMMON SENSE by Thomas Paine - FULL AudioBook | GreatestAudioBooks.com V3 - Common Sense is a pamphlet written by Thomas Paine in 1775–76 that inspired people in the Thirteen Colonies to declare and fight for independence from Great Britain in the summer of 1776. In clear, simple language it explained the advantages of and the need for immediate independence. It was published anonymously on January 10, 1776, at the beginning of the American Revolution and became an immediate sensation. It was sold and distributed widely and read aloud at taverns and meeting places. Washington had it read to all his troops, which at the time had surrounded the British army in Boston. In proportion to the population of the colonies at that time (2.5 million), it had the largest sale and circulation of any bo...
http://www.thomaspainesociety.org The Thomas Paine Society presents actor Ian Ruskin in the first of a series of TOM TALKS that will feature authors, actors, historians and others discussing Thomas Paine's ideas as they apply to contemporary society. Presented at the Historical Castle Green in Pasadena, California January 29, 2012, in celebration of Paine's 275th birthday, this talk was part of the Society's Headstrong Evening Club, an annual event that is modeled after a debating society in Lewes, England where Paine honed his skills of persuasion. The Thomas Paine Society is a non-profit educational organization with the mission to educate the public about the life and works of Thomas Paine. For more information go to http://www.thomaspainesociety.org
high school civics project- spoof interview with Thomas Paine on his aversion to kings and his book, Common Sense.
Everybody's favorite anti-theist Christopher Hitchens appears on NPR's Talk of the Nation on October 23, 2007 to talk about his new book "Thomas Paine's Rights of Man".
Thomas Paine on a talk show. I realize this looks nothing like him. Ad-Free
Glenn Beck Interviews Bob Basso a YouTube phenomenon who is fighting back against political corruption and insisting that our leaders begin doing their jobs and looking after our needs rather than their own. See http://www.youtube.com/user/Funbobbasso for Bob Basso's YouTube site. Well worth a look!
My radio interview with Bob Basso who portrays Thomas Paine in videos on the internet and here on YouTube. WSLR Radio Sarasota, FL.
Interviews with the author of GIVE ME LIBERTY! AN AMERICAN HISTORY Question: What was the impact of Thomas Paine on the revolutionary situation and what would you say is his lasting significance? For more podcasts and a transcript of this interview, visit the Give Me Liberty!: An American History StudySpace Website: http://www.wwnorton.com/college/history/give-me-liberty3/
Christopher Hitchens, a slashing polemicist in the tradition of Thomas Paine and George Orwell. "Writing is what's important to me, and anything that helps me do that — or enhances and prolongs and deepens and sometimes intensifies argument and conversation — is worth it to me," he told Charlie Rose in a television interview in 2010, adding that it was "impossible for me to imagine having my life without going to those parties, without having those late nights, without that second bottle." Armed with a quick wit and a keen appetite for combat, Mr. Hitchens was in constant demand as a speaker on television, radio and the debating platform, where he held forth in a sonorous, plummily accented voice that seemed at odds with his disheveled appearance. He was a master of the extended perorati...
Interview with John Wright, the custodian of Paine Cottage in New Rochelle, NY, shot shortly after the 200th Anniversary of Tom Paine's Death. As Bill Moyers and others have pointed out, Paine was idealogical father of the American Revolution, but has been largely eliminated from history. http://www.pbs.org/moyers/journal/06122009/profile2.html. Wright describes some of the current struggles to keep the surviving relics of Paine's in public display. For more information see www.thomaspainecottage.org
Christopher Hitchens interviews Eric Hobsbawm http://www.theguardian.com/books/2012/oct/01/eric-hobsbawm The sheer scope of his interest in the past, and his exceptional command of what he knew, continued to humble many, most of all in the four-volume Age of... series, in which he distilled the history of the capitalist world from 1789 to 1991. "Hobsbawm's capacity to store and retrieve detail has now reached a scale normally approached only by large archives with big staffs," wrote Neal Ascherson. Both in his knowledge of historic detail and in his extraordinary powers of synthesis, so well displayed in that four-volume project, he was unrivalled. Hobsbawm was born in Alexandria, a good place for a historian of empire, in 1917, a good year for a communist. He was second-generation Brit...
A scene from HBO's John Adams miniseries in which Thomas Jefferson and John Adams illustrate their differences of opinion on having faith in humanity.
For more than two centuries, our political life has been divided between a party of progress and a party of conservation. In The Great Debate, Yuval Levin explores the origins of the left/right divide by examining the views of the men who best represented each side of that debate at its outset: Edmund Burke and Thomas Paine. In a groundbreaking exploration of the roots of our political order, Levin shows that American partisanship originated in the debates over the French Revolution, fueled by the fiery rhetoric of these ideological titans. Levin masterfully shows how Burke's and Paine’s differing views, a reforming conservatism and a restoring progressivism, continue to shape our current political discourse—on issues ranging from abortion to welfare, education, economics, and beyond. Es...
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Listen to the full audiobook: http://hotaudiobook.com/mabk/30/en/B01J4M6B3Y/book "common Sense" was published in 1776, at a time when America, then a colony of Great Britain, was teetering on the brink of war. It was an immediate success, a best seller, and was credited with galvanizing the people of America and George Washington's army. Paine's approach followed a path blazed by earlier thinkers such as John Locke and Thomas Hobbes, though he radicalized both their positions. For Paine, British rule in America amounted to little more than tyranny and he went to great lengths to explain the deficiencies in the system of government that had been forced on the colonists. Paine was not only advocating separation from Britain, but also political and social revolution. "common Sense" stresses w...
Listen to the full audiobook: http://hotaudiobook.com/mabk/30/en/B01GKANY7Y/book A Macat analysis of Thomas Paine's The Rights of Man. London: The Collector's Library of Essential Thinkers, 2004 British-born American political activist Thomas Paine wrote Rights of Man in 1791 in response to Reflections on the Revolution in France, Edmund Burke's attack on the French Revolution. Burke was wary of tearing down old institutions of government. But Paine argued that revolution is acceptable in fact, necessary when government ignores the rights of its people. Not surprisingly, Rights of Man proved very popular in the newly liberated United States, selling over 100,000 copies. In England, though, Paine was convicted (in his absence) of writing to incite a popular uprising. The 31 essays collected...
Listen to the full audiobook: http://hotaudiobook.com/mabk/30/en/B00H2BVJBY/book For more than two centuries, our political life has been divided between a party of progress and a party of conservation. In The Great Debate, Yuval Levin explores the origins of the Left-right divide by examining the views of the men who best represented each side of that debate at its outset: Edmund Burke and Thomas Paine. In a groundbreaking exploration of the roots of our political order, Levin shows that American partisanship originated in the debates over the French Revolution, fueled by the fiery rhetoric of these ideological titans. Levin masterfully shows how Burke's and Paine's differing views, a reforming conservatism and a restoring progressivism, continue to shape our current political discourse o...
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Get your free copy of this audiobook: http://copydl.space/mabk/30/en/B00H2BVJBY/audiobook For more than two centuries, our political life has been divided between a party of progress and a party of conservation. In The Great Debate, Yuval Levin explores the origins of the Left-right divide by examining the views of the men who best represented each side of that debate at its outset: Edmund Burke and Thomas Paine. In a groundbreaking exploration of the roots of our political order, Levin shows that American partisanship originated in the debates over the French Revolution, fueled by the fiery rhetoric of these ideological titans. Levin masterfully shows how Burke's and Paine's differing views, a reforming conservatism and a restoring progressivism, continue to shape our current political di...
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"The Great Debate: Edmund Burke, Thomas Paine, And the Birth of Right and Left" Yuval Levin AWC Family Foundation Lecture Series November 19, 2013