Thomas Paine

<p><span class="deck">Time is taking its toll of the romantic covered bridge, where once you could exchange gossip, argue politics, or court your lady fair.</span> </p>

<p>Common Sense was a bestseller and turned the tide of public feeling toward independence, but for its author fame was followed by ingratitude.</p>

<p><span class="deck"> The Most Uncommon Pamphlet of the Revolution</span> </p>

<p><span class="deck"><span class="typestyle">Vain, snobbish, distinctly upper-class in his libertine social habits, Gouverneur Morris nevertheless saw himself justifiably as "A Representative of America"</span></span></p>

<p><span class="deck"> WHERE DID IT GO?</span> </p>

<p><span class="deck"><em><span class="typestyle">Walden</span></em> is here, of course; but so too is Fanny Farmer’s first cookbook.</span></p>

<p><span class="deck"> You Asked for It</span> </p>

<p><span class="deck">He was a capitalist. He was an urban reformer. He was a country boy. He was “Comrade Jesus,” a hardworking socialist. He was the world’s first ad man. For a century and a half, novelists have been trying to recapture the “real” Jesus.</span></p>

<p><span class="deck">‘The ingenious Captain Peale” sired a dynasty of painters and started America’s first great museum.</span> </p>

<p>In the teeth of near defeat, General George Washington pulled out miraculous mid-winter victories.</p>

<p>Thomas Paine's <em>Common Sense</em> helped Americans "decide upon the propriety of separation,” as George Washington said.</p>

<p>The words of Thomas Paine changed the course of history, and are still relevant as Ukrainians fight for the rights he articulated.</p>