Common Sense

Description

Thomas Paines cry to the American people to get rid of the pesky British. Even though he was a Deist, he cleverly used Biblical references to appeal to a larger audience. It worked. Selling over half a million copies, it was believed to be the most incendiary and popular pamphlet of the entire revolutionary era. Basically, by writing this pamphlet, Paine spurred on Americans to take on the British. Before then, they had been umming and ahhing over why they should be independent, and Paine, in one fell swoop, gave them the reasons.

This book has 51 pages in the PDF version, and was originally published in 1776.

Production notes: This ebook of Common Sense was published by Global Grey in 2018.