To Spit against the Wind Author:Benjamin H Levin Tom Paine was an innovator. He saw ways of doing things that no one had perceived clearly before. In his writing, he moved people to action with his visions. His most memorial work, a short pamphlet entitled Common Sense, fanned the flames of independence in the colonies to a fiery heat. This novel takes us from his early life in England, throug... more »h the Revolutionary war in America, and later through his life during the French Revolution.« less