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#1455 Thomas Paine with Lindsay Chervinsky

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Listening to America

Society & Culture, History

4.61.1K Ratings

🗓️ 10 August 2021

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

Thomas Paine wrote a bestselling pamphlet, became derided by Americans for his alleged atheism, and was almost killed during the French Revolution. Lindsay Chervinsky joins us to discuss Paine's fascinating life.

You can order Clay's new book at AmazonTargetBarnes and Noble, or by contacting your independent bookstore. The Language of Cottonwoods is out now through Koehler Books.

Mentioned on this episode: Thomas Paine and the Promise of America by Harvey Kaye; books by Thomas Paine, including Common Sense, The American Crisis, The Age of Reason, and The Rights of Man; David's audio book of Common Sense; The Federalist Papers by Alexander Hamilton, John Jay, and James Madison; and lindsaychervinsky.com

Find this episode, along with recommended reading, on the blog. Support the show by joining the 1776 Club or by donating to the Thomas Jefferson Hour, Inc. You can learn more about Clay's cultural tours and retreats at jeffersonhour.com/tours. Check out our new merch. You can find Clay's publications on our website, along with a list of his favorite books on Jefferson, Lewis and Clark, and other topics. Thomas Jefferson is interpreted by Clay S. Jenkinson.

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0:00.0

Good day, Thomas Jefferson, our podcast listeners.

0:03.8

As always, thank you so much for listening.

0:07.7

This week we're going to break protocol a little bit.

0:10.0

It's not just clay and I introducing the podcast, but our special guest this week, Lindsay

0:15.9

Chervinsky, would you tell our listeners, again, how they can find your blogs, et cetera?

0:23.4

Absolutely.

0:24.8

The best place is my website, which is Lindsay Chervinsky.com.

0:28.0

It's easy to find because there's only one of me, so even if you butcher my name, it's

0:31.8

fine.

0:32.8

You can sign up for my newsletter, which is called Imperfect Union There, and that

0:36.5

will give you links to all of my latest op-eds and podcasts and articles and essays,

0:42.6

et cetera, et cetera.

0:44.4

Very good.

0:45.4

I have to say, again, how much we appreciate your time.

0:48.8

That's all any of us have, really, and you're sharing it so generously to be on the Jefferson

0:53.4

hour, and as we talked about in the show, we get tremendous emails from our listeners

0:59.0

and how much they appreciate it.

1:00.8

I have people in the staff here that listen to the show who come to me and say, when's

1:05.8

Lindsay going to be on again?

1:07.1

She's great.

1:08.1

So I'm not making this up.

1:09.8

So thank you so much for being so generous, generous with your time.

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