Harlow Giles Unger - Thomas Paine and the Clarion Call for American Independence

M Y DEEPEST THANKS AND APPRECIATION TO GARY BERTON, A consummate Thomas Paine scholar who is Coordinator of the Institute for Thomas Paine Studies and Secretary of the Thomas Paine National Historical Association. Mr. Berton was most generous in reviewing the manuscript of this book and sharing his extraordinary knowledge of Thomas Paines life and his enormous number of written works. In addition, Mr. Bertons automated authorship analyses ensured a level of accuracy in this work unavailable to previous researchers.

My sincere thanks as well to my editor Robert Pigeon for the care, skills, and time he invested in this and all my books. More than an outstanding editor, Robert is a gifted teacher who for more than a decade has never ceased to help me improve my work. Thanks, too, to others who have helped me with my work for many years, including Lissa Warren, John Radziewicz, and Kevin Hanover. I am also grateful to Hachette Book Group publicity director Joanna Pinsker; marketing associate Odette Fleming; Cisca Schreefel, manager of editorial production; Trish Wilkinson, designer; Martha Whitt, copy editor; and the Hachette Book Group sales team. In addition, I send my deepest thanks to website developer Tom Bowler for his steadfast friendship and for his magnificent workboth technically and artisticallyon my various websites, including harlowgiles unger.com. Lastly, many aides and scholars at archival organizations in the United States, Britain, and France gave freely and willingly of their time and knowledge to help me with research for this book, and I thank them all.