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Kathleen Dunn
from Wednesday, September 26, 2012 at 10:00 PM
We kick off our Back-to-School Book Club with Thomas Paine's populist pamphlet Common Sense, published in January, 1776. Today it is known as the book that inspired the American Revolution, but at the time, the action that Paine advocated was controversial. This hour, Kathleen Dunn and her regular Book Club guest talk about the ideas that the book put forth and how they have influenced our political discourse over the past 236 years. Guest: Russ Castronovo - Professor of English and American Studies at UW-Madison READ: The text is in the public domain, so you can go to or elsewhere to get your copy: http://bit.ly/Lt9PB2.

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