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Thomas Jefferson praised Tom Paine as the best political writer of the age. The writer of Common Sense and Protection under the law of Man, Paine helped make revolutions in the us and France. But beyond his motivating calls to action, Paine harbored a deeper politics eye-sight for his implemented country. It was embodied in an architectural job that he put in ages planning: an iron bridge to course the Schuylkill River at Philadelphia. The bridge was Paine's answer to the politics puzzle of the new country: how to sustain a republic as large and geographically fragmented as america. Among its patrons were other giants of that time period, including Benjamin Franklin and Edmund Burke, Paine's ideological opponent. Set against the background of the North american Revolution, the story of his iron bridge reveals a fresh Tom Paine and connects this ground-breaking to the huge program of internal improvements that soon transformed America.

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