The Writings of Thomas Paine -- Volume 1 (1774-1779): The American Crisis

Thomas  Paine (February 9, 1737  – June 8, 1809) was an author, intellectual, revolutionary, and one of the most influential writers during the 1770s. His Common Sense and American Crisis were two of the most important texts of the decade, and Rights of Man is about the French Revolution, which he took an interest in while living in Paris.