Mark Steel Lectures - Thomas Paine
Surely Britain's greatest unknown international revolutionary, best-selling author and hobbyist bridge builder, Norfolk born corset-maker's son Thomas Paine wrote the Rights of Man and helped inspire the American War of Independence. Thereafter he became the Secretary for Foreign Affairs in a government that hated his country of birth. He then went to France and escaped the guillotine by accident, after having failed to sell a bridge he built over a field in London. (from open2.net)
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| Thomas Paine - wikipedia Thomas Paine (1737-1809) was an English-American political activist, author, political theorist and revolutionary. |
| Common Sense This is a collection of eBooks and audiobooks of the pamphlet Common Sense written by Thomas Paine in 1775-76. |
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