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Philip S. Foner
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Professor of History, Lincoln University, Pennsylvania, 1967–79. Editor of The Complete Writings of Thomas Paine.

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Portrait painting of Thomas Paine by John Wesley Jarvis, showing Paine with graying hair, a white cravat, and dark coat against a plain brown background.
Thomas Paine was an English-American writer and political pamphleteer whose Common Sense pamphlet and Crisis papers were important influences on the American Revolution. Other works that contributed to his reputation as one of the greatest political propagandists in history were Rights of Man, a…
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