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In a young nation facing financial hardships, oppressive laws, and violence, Thomas Paine advocates for freedom, and helps to kickstart the American Revolution. Common Sense by Thomas Paine is said to be one of the major influences on Americäs decision to rebel against Great Britain, as Paine was among the first to present the thought of revolution in an intellectual medium.

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Like other legends of his era, he died before he was thirty. Unlike most others, his accomplishments embraced a far greater range of activities. As a result, he packed more excitement into his short span of years than most people could in ten lifetimes. From severe winter hazards in the mountains of Idaho to confrontations with hooligans as a U. S. Forest Service Ranger. From the challenges of learning to fly an airplane to those of teaching a...

Thomas Paine was an American political commentator and activist in the latter part of the eighteenth century. His writing covered a wide range of subjects, but were centered on his core beliefs of republicanism and the inherent rights of people. An early pamphlet of his, ¿Common Sense, ¿ was written soon after he arrived in America from Great Britain, with its focus on the ills of colonialism and the King¿s veering between rational debate and ...

The Age of Reason is an important work in the American Deist movement. Paine worked on it continually for more than a decade, publishing it in three parts from 1794 through 1807. It quickly became a best-seller in post-Revolution America, spurring a revival in Deism as an alternative to the prevailing Christian influence. In clear, simple, and often funny language, Paine attempts to dissect the Bible¿s supposed inaccuracies and hypocrisies. He...

The American Crisis is a collection of articles by Thomas Paine, originally published from December 1776 to December 1783, that focus on rallying Americans during the worst years of the Revolutionary War. Paine used his deistic beliefs to galvanize the revolutionaries, for example by claiming that the British are trying to assume the powers of God and that God would support the American colonists. These articles were so influential that others...

Thomas Paine wrote the first part of The Rights of Man in 1791 as a response to the furious attack on the French Revolution by the British parliamentarian Edmund Burke in his pamphlet Reflections on the Revolution in France, published the previous year. Paine carefully dissects and counters Burke¿s arguments and provides a more accurate description of the events surrounding the revolution of 1789. He then reproduces and comments on the ¿Declar...

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