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LATE 18TH CENTURY POLITICS and LITERARY RADICALISM the French & American Revolutions Paine (Thomas), the Rights of Man [Bein LATE 18TH CENTURY POLITICS AND LITERARY RADICALISM The French & American Revolutions Paine (Thomas), The Rights of Man [Being an Answer to Mr. Burke's Attack on the French Revolution], in Collected Writings, ed. Eric Foner (Library of America, New York, c.1995), or ed. Henry Collins (Harmondsworth, Middx, 1969, reissued in Penguin Classics, London 1985, with intro. by Eric Foner), or in Rights of Man; Common Sense; and Other Writings, ed. Mark Philip (World's Classics, Oxford, 1995); see also Political Writings, ed. Bruce Kuklick (Cambridge Texts in the History of Political Thought, Cambridge, 1989), and Keane (John), Tom Paine; A Political Life (London, 1996). Boulton (James T.), The Language of Politics in the Age of Wilkes and Burke (London, 1963); on Wilkes see also Thomas (Peter D.G.), John Wilkes; A Friend to Liberty (Oxford, 1996). 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