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Podcast: Plausibly Live - The Dave Bowman Show
Episode: DDH - I Declare!
Description: In the early weeks  of 1776, Independence favor was fanned by the publication of the most influential and best selling book ever published in America. Thomas Paine had  arrived in the Colonies about a year earlier with a letter of introduction from Ben Franklin and immediately and set out to continue his legacy of failure at everything he tried.
Until he took the ideas of the enlightenment and put pen to pap and produced a book that soon had every person in the colonies discussing a single idea: Independence.
That fever led  villages, towns, counties all ove...