Thank you. I've read Paine's Rights of Man and understood him to be at least as capable a writer and thinker as Jefferson and others, but didn't know (or at lea

Thank you. I've read Paine's Rights of Man and understood him to be at least as capable a writer and thinker as Jefferson and others, but didn't know (or at least didn't remember) much about the details of his associations. Perhaps because I read Rights of Man I've always thought of Paine as a (two-way) bridge between American and Continental revolutionary thought and activism, neglecting to appreciate his other direct roles in historical affairs--as opposed to the more indirect influence of Common Sense.