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Although recent research has dedicated attention to the “légende grise” of the last years of Thomas Paine’s American life,1 Paine’s quantitatively and qualitatively important political writings between the years 1802 through 1807 have been largely neglected by historiography.
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Marc Belissa, “La légende grise des dernières années de Thomas Paine en Amerique, 1802–1809,” AHRF 360 (2010): 133–172.
Nathalie Caron, Thomas Paine contre l’imposture des prêtres (Paris: L’Harmattan, 1999).
Jerry Knudson, “The Rage over Tom Paine. Newspaper Reaction to His Homecoming in 1802,” New York Historical Society Quarterly 53 (1969): 34–63.
Bernard Vincent, The Transatlantic Republican: Thomas Paine and the Age of Revolutions (New York: Rodopi, 2005).
For an anthology of negative assessments of the historiography of the last pieces of Paine, see especially Knudson, The Rage over Tom Paine, 55, as well as Cecelia Kenyon, “Where Paine Went Wrong,” American Political Science Review 45, no. 4 (1951): 1086–1099; Jules Ayer, Thomas Paine (New York: Atheneum, 1988), 165; Jack Fruchtman, Thomas Paine, Apostle of Freedom (New York: Basic, 1994), 396–397; Craig Nelson, Thomas Paine, Enlightenment, Revolution, and the Birth of Modern Nations (New York: Penguin Books, 2007), 308.
Editions used here are: The Writings of Thomas Paine (WTP), ed. Moncure Daniel Conway (New York and London: G.P. Putnam, 1893–1896); The Complete Writings of Thomas Paine (CWTP), ed. Philip S. Foner (New York: Citadel Press, 1969); Collected Writings (CW), ed. Eric Foner (New York: Library of America, 1976).
On the “Revolution de 1800,” see Henry Adams, History of the US during the Administration of Thomas Jefferson and James Madison, 1889–1890 (New York: Literary Classics of America, 1986); Dan A. Sisson, The American Revolution of 1800 (New York: A. Knopf, 1974); Drew McCoy, The Elusive Republic: Political Economy in Jeffersonian America (Chapel Hill, NY: University of North Carolina Press, 1980).
Gabriel Bonnot de Mably, “Observations sur le gouvernement et les lois des Etats-Unis d’Amérique,” Collected Works, Volume 8 (Hamburg: J.G. Virchaux, 1784).
John Keane, Tom Paine. A Political Life (London: Bloomsbury, 1995), 510.
Edward Larkin, Thomas Paine and the Literature of Revolution (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2005).
See Political Sermons of the American Founding Era: 1730–1805, ed. Ellis Sandoz (Indianapolis, IN: Liberty Press, 1990).
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Belissa, M. (2016). Thomas Paine’s Lessons in Republicanism, 1802–1807. In: Cleary, S., Stabell, I.L. (eds) New Directions in Thomas Paine Studies. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137589996_9
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