{"title":"Thomas Paine","description":"Thomas Paine was born in England in 1737 and worked as a schoolteacher, storekeeper, and customs inspector before moving to Philadelphia in 1774. He quickly acquired a reputation as a journalist and published his hugely successful and influential pamphlet Common Sense in 1776. The Crisis, written when Paine was a soldier in the darkest days of the revolution--with its famous opening words, \"These are the times that try men's souls\"--called for perseverance and prevented Washington's army from disintegrating. To honor him for defending the French Revolution in Rights of Man, France made him a citizen and elected him to their constitutional convention. He died in 1809.","products":[],"url":"https:\/\/blackandbarhe.com\/collections\/thomas-paine.oembed","provider":"Black \u0026 Barhe Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}