Paine, Thomas. Common Sense, The Rights of Man and Other Essential Writings of ThomasPaine. United States: Penguin Publishing Group, 2003.
Paine wrote in the context of the men of letters, or the pamphlet culture of England, France, and the US in the late eighteenth century.
To be read together with the Federalist Papers, and the Declaration of Independence.
Common Sense fomented the American and French Revolutions.
Debated with Edmund Burke, wrote the Rights of Man to respond to Burke’s Reflections on a Revolution in France.
