Common sense
By: Thomas Paine
Publisher: Lightning Source Inc. (Tier 1); Digireads.com Publishing
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Place of publication not identified]
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781596250048; 9781420922516
Subjects: Politics and government; Political science; History; Monarchy; Early works to 1800; Politique et gouvernement
Description: When Thomas Paine first anonymously published his series of pamphlets titles Common Sense they became an overnight success. First released in 1776 at the height of the American Revolution the treatise denounced British rule and is thought to have been so popular as to have influenced the path of the revolution itself. In the words of Historian Gordon S. Wood Common Sense was, "the most incendiary and popular pamphlet of the entire revolutionary era."