Not only that: The Great Debate argues that these ideas enter the American political bloodstream ... in the 1790s between Edmund Burke and Thomas Paine, the prime movers in a pamphlet war that ...

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While John Adams called for a declaration of independence in the Continental Congress, a down-on-his-luck Englishman named Thomas Paine sounded ... Adams knew the American Revolution had to ...

This 50-page pamphlet, the most widely read during the American Revolution, sold more than ... just more than an hour away. "A lot of Thomas Paine's Lewes would still be familiar to him today ...

Paine spoke out against injustice wherever he saw it. In his day people could be hanged for stealing a packet of tea.Thomas Paine is one of Norfolk's most famous and internationally influential sons.