Common SenseCommon SenseAgrarian JusticeCommon Sense Thomas Paine was a writer and revolutionary. J. M. Opal is Associate Professor of History at McGill University. He is the author of Beyond the Farm: National Ambitions in Rural New England . His new book, Avenging the People: Andrew Jackson, the Southern Borderlands, and the Ordeal of American Democracy , centers on vengeance and on the man who built both his public and his private life around its pursuit. Used Book in Good Condition