Thomas Paine's Common Sense Pocket-Sized Hardcover

• Made in the U.S.A.
• By Thomas Paine
• Hardcover: 76 pages
• Trim Size: 4 x 6 inches

• Product Description

• Arguably, no other revolution in history has enjoyed such a brilliant gallery of thinkers as the one that led to the founding of the United States. America’s Founding Fathers is centered on the personal philosophies, opinions, thoughts, witticisms, and feelings of the exemplary men who founded our nation.

  Thomas Paine arrived in America from England in 1774. A friend of Benjamin Franklin, he was a writer of poetry and tracts condemning the slave trade. In 1775, as hostilities between Britain and the colonies intensified, Paine wrote Common Sense to encourage the colonies to break the British exploitative hold and fight for independence. Initially published on January 10, 1776, it sold a half-million copies then, approximately equal to 75 million copies today.

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