Now you inspired me to pull it out!
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You’re in for a surprise!
I'm sure. Paine seems to be a person who was in the right place at the right time (Common Sense and The American Crisis), but then his radicalism got the better of him later in life.
He seems to be an example of when someone who falls out of favor has his "name stricken from every book and tablet, stricken from all pylons and obelisks, stricken from every monument... Let the name... be unheard and unspoken, erased from the memory of men for all time." ;-)
-PJ