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. The Age of Reason is Paine's most controversial work as he challenged institutionalized religion and the legitimacy of the Bible. The book describes what Paine saw as the corruption of the Christian Church. The book led to Paine being imprisoned in France for ten months.
