Thomas Paine, Common Sense and The American Mind

My History Can Beat Up Your Politics

Bruce Carlson

Politics, History, News

4.6 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 16 October 2018

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

A look at one of America's earliest blockbusters, the little book that changed American minds: Common Sense, its author Thomas Paine, the impact it had at the time and what it might mean today. We also examine the creative differences Paine had with his printers, and how much it might have cost to advertise for a book in that time. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:29.6	had just arrived in Philadelphia, stricken with typhoy who's brought off the boat on a stretcher.
0:37.7	It was fitting in a way.
0:40.3	Nearly 40, the man had been unsuccessful in nearly everything that he had tried.
0:47.0	Yet he would become a hero of American independence. The His rope business, what his father had taught him, failed. He sought employment as a customs
1:11.5	excise officer in Great Britain.
1:14.1	He was fired.
1:15.9	His wife and child, both killed in childbirth.
1:19.3	His household possession sold to pay debts. He moved to London with nothing.
1:26.3	Yet Tom Payne had developed something. During his stint as a customs officer,
1:30.8	he wasn't happy with the pay that he was receiving, and decided to take word of this to his fellow citizens.
1:36.0	He published a flyer arguing for the increased pay of officers, like himself.
1:41.0	He printed 4,000 copies of it and handed it out in the London streets.
1:47.0	It was because of this writing and other writings that he was introduced to Benjamin Franklin
1:51.4	Franklin suggested that that he was introduced to Benjamin Franklin who was now living in London.
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