THOMAS PAINE: MAJOR WORKS: COMMON SENSE / THE AMERICAN CRISIS / THE RIGHTS OF MAN / THE AGE OF REASON / AGRARIAN JUSTICE

Thomas Paine (or Pain; February 9, 1737 [O.S. January 29, 1736] – June 8, 1809) was an English-American political activist, philosopher, political theorist, and revolutionary. One of the Founding Fathers of the United States, he authored the two most influential pamphlets at the start of the American Revolution, and he inspired the rebels in 1776 to declare independence from Britain. His ideas ref...