Lately, I have been reading a lot of American literature especially by  Benjamin Franklin and Thomas Paine.
Really, how interesting; whats been your favorite?
Thomas Paine by far. He has inspired me to read about the rebels in 1776 and the independence from Britain
You know, Im of British Heritage, My Great,Great, Great, Great .... Grandmother was Great grandmother to Henery the VIII.
The Age of Reason
The Age of Reason; Being an Investigation of True and Fabulous Theology is a work by English and American political activist Thomas Paine, arguing for the philosophical position of Deism. It follows in the tradition of eighteenth-century British deism, and challenges institutionalized religion and the legitimacy of the Bible. It was published in three parts in 1794, 1795, and 1807.
It was a best-seller in the United States, where it caused a short-lived deistic revival. British audiences,
and a propagandist by inclination".
Born in Thetford in the English county of Norfolk, Paine migrated to the British American colonies in 1774 with the help of Benjamin Franklin, arriving just in time to participate in the American Revolution. Virtually every rebel read (or listened to a reading of) his powerful pamphlet "Common Sense" (1776), proportionally the all-time best-selling American title, which crystallized the rebellious demand for independence from Great Britain. His "The American Crisis" (1776–1783) was