Simple Facts and Plain Truths
David A. Bell: Common Sense, 20 October 2011
Common Sense: A Political History
by Sophia Rosenfeld.
Harvard, 337 pp., £22.95,0 674 05781 3 Show More
by Sophia Rosenfeld.
Harvard, 337 pp., £22.95,
“... We have become so accustomed to this usage that it is something of a shock to be reminded by Sophia Rosenfeld that ‘common sense’ once had a very different set of political connotations, and that 200 years ago asserting a belief in ordinary people’s common sense could see you branded as a radical democrat. In Common Sense, the 1776 pamphlet ... ”
