Jack Rakove is William Robertson Coe Professor of History and American Studies at Stanford University and author, most recently, of Revolutionaries: A New History of the Invention of America (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt).
A review of Thomas Paine: A Collection of Unknown Writings, edited by Hazel Burgess; and The Political Philosophy of Thomas Paine , by Jack Fruchtman, Jr.
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