"The destinies of life": on the road to bigger things
"The birthday of a new world is at hand": revolutionaries
"These are the times that try men's souls": Paine and Monroe go to war
"Defending our fanes and fire-sides": winning the Revolutionary War
"The times that tried men's souls are over": peace and new departures
"My country is the world": Paine ad the early years of the French Revolution
"Itching for crowns, coronets, and miters": the rise of partisan politics
"The only man who possessed the confidence of the whole": partisan America in a predatory world
"I relinquish hope": the French Revolution in France and America
"A continued sense of horror": Paine, Monroe, and the Luxembourg
"The Federalist tide is strong": gloomy years for the apostles of revolution
"The reign of witches": the high federalists take charge
"I know of no republic except America": endgame
"Death has no terrors for me": closing the age of Paine.
