Thomas Paine's Common Sense: The Call to Independence

by Thomas Paine

Presents the text with annotations of "the single most influential political pamphlet ever published in America." (read review)

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Tom Paine is one of my most favorite historical figures. A true independent, radical, intellectual dissident. This work has as much to do with American independence as the Declaration of Independence. This is a first hand account of the sentiment of the time and is what ultimately swayed public opinion for a call to independence.

The intriguing thing about this pamphlet to me is how, in this present time, I have to warp my mind in order to understand that people needed to be...

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