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Thomas Paine's Common Sense

In Our Time

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The Importance of Unity in America

He's actually looking at what's happening in America and what America is like. He says that, look, we can do it ourselves if we're united. There's no point in putting it off. Things aren't going to get any better. We must do it now. Whilst we're young and in disarray. Interestingly, he's sort of become an American, hasn't he, really,. in his head? That's why he's so cross when his publisher puts the first edition... In his own second edition, it's Thomas Paine.

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