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 American Crisis is a series of pamphlets that Paine published from 1776 to 1783 during the American Revolution. The pamphlets were considered key in boosting the morale of soldiers early on during the war.
