Opinion A portion of the cover of Thomas Paine’s “Common Sense,” the pamphlet originally published in 1776. The American Revolution was stoked in part by an antisemitic pamphlet, a British historian contends in a new book defending King George III. Common Sense , the 1776 broadside by Thomas Paine, was a runaway bestseller, described by Benjamin Franklin as having had “great effect on the minds of the people at the beginning of the revolution.” The historian of the American Revolution Bernard Bailyn has written that it had “unique power.” In his new book, The Last King of America: The Misunderstood...
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