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Podcast: Calling History: Listen In on Conversations with History’s Most Influential People.
Episode: Thomas Paine Part 1: These are the Times That Try Men’s Souls
Description: In 1802, Thomas Paine was in France making plans to return to America when he received a call from the future…
In this episode, Paine talks about his wildly popular pamphlet Common Sense and how it united the Americans to fight for liberty. He talked about his history seizing enemy ships and their goods, and how that didn’t make him a pirate. And he’ll talk about his experience in France almost losing his head to the guillotine.
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