Harvey J. Kaye believes that the Americas should have treated Thomas Paine better then what they had been treating him. Although in many of his quotes coming from his political reviews and the ideology that have attacked him of his radical ideas about democracy and the advocacy of revolution he brings about social change. In the book “Thomas Paine and the Promise of America,” Kaye elaborates that regardless of the efforts to curb his control of conservatives of virtually every generation since the 1790’s, to most of the America’s liberal movements Paine have been a spiritual father. After providing a brief summary of Paine’s career, Kaye targets on ways his character was shaped, beginning with men was inspired by Paine’s ideas about true democracy. Kaye symbols among several groups of early feminists and abolitionists, such as Ralph Waldo Emerson from Transcendental movement. Walt Whitman and Herman Melville are writers, and many others politicians along with Abraham Lincoln. Theodore Roosevelt a Republican who slandered Paine in the twentieth century. Woodrow Wilson a Democratic did many things without his acknowledgement; and Franklin Roosevelt who is also a Democratic admired Paine by indicating his work to assembly Americans during World War II. Kaye ironically reports that the …show more content…
America’s liberals are Paine’s spiritual inheritors, for making Paine’s position clear. From 1776 to 2005 Kaye accommodates a summary of American political history by signalizing liberal traditions. Stated in Paine’s political philosophy, Kaye presented many organizations and political parties that would elaborate on the significant of individual whose rights as a citizen. Although Kaye can be one sided at times, his writing style and his ability to put together different sources without eliminating his narrative combine, which made this and uplifting thought about one of America’s Founding