![]() ![]() ![]() ’Tis not the affair of a city, a county, a province, or a kingdom but of a continent-of at least one-eighth part of the habitable globe. “The sun never shone on a cause of greater worth. “The cause of America is in a great measure the cause of all mankind” was its astonishing and inspiring claim about the fate of thirteen infant colonies on the edge of the world. In the winter of 1776, John Adams read “Common Sense,” an anonymous, fanatical, and brutally brilliant seventy-seven-page pamphlet that would convince the American people of what more than a decade of taxes and nearly a year of war had not: that it was nothing less than their destiny to declare independence from Britain. ![]()
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