Thomas Paine and Samuel Adams Contributing to "Selling the Revolution" Thomas Paine and Samuel Adams each contributed to “selling the revolution” to a complacent society through their pamphlets, and writing such as Common Sense, and The American Crisis, The Rights of Man, and The Age of Reason, all of which concentrated on the emotions of the society during the Revolutionary Era. Englishman Thomas Paine is said to be the most persuasive writer of the revolution. After 37 years of drifting from various jobs such as corset maker to a school teacher he decided to come to the Uni