- Thomas Paine - Wikipedia
Paine's work advocated the right of the people to overthrow their government and was therefore targeted with a writ for his arrest issued in early 1792 Paine fled to France in September, despite not being able to speak French, but he was quickly elected to the French National Convention
- Thomas Paine | Biography, Common Sense, Rights of Man, Religion . . .
Thomas Paine was an English-American writer and political pamphleteer His Common Sense pamphlet and Crisis papers were important influences on the American Revolution What motivated Thomas Paine to write Common Sense?
- How Americans Learned to Love Thomas Paine - The New York Times
Thomas Paine, whose 1776 pamphlet “Common Sense” helped spark the American Revolution, was hailed by some as the greatest radical of the age and reviled by others as a rabble-rousing atheist
- Thomas Paine (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)
Thomas Paine was a pamphleteer, controversialist and international revolutionary
- 250 Years Ago: Thomas Paine’s Common Sense | Headlines Heroes
250 years ago, Thomas Paine’s pamphlet “Common Sense” was published and went viral across the American colonies Published in newspapers and heavily debated, this work of the American Revolution is still talked about today Read all about it!
- Thomas Paine - US History
Throughout most of his life, his writings inspired passion, but also brought him great criticism He communicated the ideas of the Revolution to common farmers as easily as to intellectuals, creating prose that stirred the hearts of the fledgling United States
- Thomas Paine Biography
The Americans and the French can both claim Thomas Paine as the true father and philosopher of their revolutions His pamphlet, "Common Sense", united the colonies behind the cause of independence and his words were also on the lips of the French as they stormed the Bastille
- Common Sense Thomas Paine and the Promise of America
Purchase Thomas Paine and the Promise of America from MacMillan Publishers 250 years ago, on Jan 9, 1776, Thomas Paine’s incendiary pamphlet, Common Sense; Addressed to the Inhabitants of America, “burst from the press with an effect which has rarely been produced by types and paper in any age or country,” in the words of a contemporary
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