Publisher's Synopsis
Thomas Paine was a prominent English-American philosopher and political activist. Paine was one of the Founding Fathers of the United States and his influential pamphlets helped inspire the American Revolution. Paine's classics such as Common Sense, Rights of Man, and The Age of Reason, are still widely read today. Common Sense is a pamphlet written by Paine in 1776 that advocated declaring independence from Great Britain. Common Sense is still among the best-selling American titles in history.
