Thomas Paine was an English citizen who, at the age of 37, moved to the colonies where he felt he belonged. Paine's childhood was a hard one, and because of it he grew to oppose the discrepancy in the social order that was being imposed on him by the government which he had started to disagree with. When he moved to the colonies, he found that he is not the only one with this sentiment of disagreement, and finds the laws that the British had imposed upon the Americans unfair, without reason, but most of all, anti-human.
             He got recognition by being the anonymous author of a pamphlet, titled Common Sense, which urged Americans to fight for their independence from Britain. After Common Sense was a hit, he wrote a series of pamphlets entitled The Crisis that discussed the same themes as Common Sense. This made Paine a well-known author since he was in favor of the American Cause. He established a negative reputation for himself by displaying his bad temper and by being indiscreet. His personal behavior made it impossible for him to maintain a position in public office. He returned to England, where they charged him with treason for writing Rights of Man, his second most successful work. This forced Paine to flee to France. While in France, he sympathized with the revolutionaries. The American ambassador was able to offer him American citizenship and a safe passage back to New York, where he died in 1809 in New York by himself, and without the fame and the recognition that he once had during the battles of Independence, when his pamphlets were regarded as a representation of the public's opinion.
             In his biography, we can see how Paine is a true propagandist by how the first pamphlet of the Common Sense was "sold" as "the first pamphlet in the colonies to urge immediate independence from Britain,". This is an example of propaganda, because he is writing about the feelings that everyone f
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