Good discussion between Thom Hartmann and Harvey J. Kaye, one of the foremost historians and academics on the life and work of Thomas Paine. This interview provides an introductory synopsis of Kaye’s book Thomas Paine and the Promise of America, one of the the great works of historical literature. Not simply a biography of Paine, the book details his importance to, and influence on, the American Revolution and all of American political progress since.

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