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(1737-1809) American writer. Thomas Paine was born in Thetford, England, the son of a Quaker. Paine emigrated to America in 1774, and he became an important figure in the American Revolution with his pamphlets like "Common Sense" (1776), and "The Crisis" (1776-83).
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Thomas Paine was a pamphleteer and writer. He's famous for "Common Sense" (1776), "The Crisis" (1776-1777), "The Rights of Man" (1791-1792), and "Age of Reason" (1794-1796).
Thomas Paine
Read more about Thomas Paine, from A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature.
The Age of Paine
"Thomas Paine was one of the first journalists to use media as a weapon againstthe entrenched power structure. He should be resurrected as the moral father of the Internet. Jon Katz explains why."
Thomas Paine
All of the essays and letters on this page are found in LIFE AND WRITINGS OF THOMAS PAINE, edited by Daniel Edwin Wheeler, 1908, Vincent Parke & Co., New York.

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