• Peter Slen on Thomas Paine’s Common Sense

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    Andrew talks to Peter Slen, the host of the C-SPAN show Books That Shaped America about Thomas Paine’s 1776 pamphlet Common Sense.

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    Peter Slen is the senior executive producer and a host at C-SPAN, a television and radio network known for its unbiased coverage of government proceedings.


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