[WATCH]: ELEMENTARY COMMON SENSE OF THOMAS PAINE, THE

ELEMENTARY COMMON SENSE OF THOMAS PAINE, THE An Interactive Adaptation for All Ages Mark Wilensky 6 x 9, 192 pages, 36 b/w photos & illustrations, 9781932714364, $18.95, paperback, Savas Beatie February 19, 2008 Few books or pamphlets have had as much influence on the course of human history as Thomas Paines Common Sense. The Declaration of Independence severed political bonds with England, but it was Paines dynamic pamphlet that conceptualized the idea of unity and freedom months before Thomas Jefferson put pen to parchment. Paines publication energized a vast number of colonists to embark on a long and bloody war that imperiled their livelihoods and dismantled their cultural identity-all in the hope of creating a new nation

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