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by: Thomas Paine
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Binding: Paperback
EAN: 9781438256146
ISBN: 1438256140
Label: CreateSpace
Manufacturer: CreateSpace
Number Of Pages: 82
Publication Date: July 16, 2008
Publisher: CreateSpace
Release Date: July 16, 2008
Sales Rank: 1471563
Studio: CreateSpace
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Common Sense was a pamphlet written by Thomas Paine. It was first published anonymously on January 10, 1776, during the American Revolution. Common Sense presented the American colonists with an argument for independence from British rule at a time when the question of independence was still undecided. Paine wrote and reasoned in a style that common people understood; forgoing the philosophy and Latin references used by Enlightenment era writers, Paine structured Common Sense like a sermon and relied on Biblical references to make his case to the people. Historian Gordon S. Wood described Common Sense as, 'the most incendiary and popular pamphlet of the entire revolutionary era.'
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This was a required reading for a graduate humanities class. John Keane's biography succinctly showed that Tom Paine (1737-1809) was the consummate revolutionary and a daring adventurer. Not only was he an important figure in the American Revolution, but he also traveled to France in 1791 to give that revolution a push. Paine traveled from England, just in time to stoke the flames of the revolution with his pamphlet Common Sense, in January 1776. To call Common Sense a sensation in the colonies ... Read More
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