Common Sense, version 4

Thomas Paine

Sprache: English

Genres: Sachbücher Politikwissenschaft

Sprecher:Mark Leder

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5 Kapitel

1. Introduction
2. Chapter II: Of Monarchy and Hereditary Succession
3. Chapter III: Thoughts on the present State of American Affairs
4. Chapter IV: Of the present Ability of America, with some miscellaneous Reflections
5. Appendix

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In November 1774, Norfolk native Thomas Paine arrived in Philadelphia. He came under the recommendation of Benjamin Franklin, and indeed it was Franklin's physician who nursed Paine back to health when he arrived, almost dead from typhoid fever. It was six months before Lexington and Concord. Paine intended for "Common Sense" to be published, as "Plain Truth", in a newspaper, but it instead was published as a pamphlet in January 1776. It soon became the talk of the Thirteen Colonies. - Summary by Mark Leder