Paine is most famous for "Common Sense", a widely-read pamphlet which rallied many behind the cause of the American Revolution. But he fell out of favor, in perhaps record time, after publishing The Age of Reason which firmly established him as a freethinker who would have no truck with organized religion.
The link above points to a BBC article which mentions a Cheesehead – Prof. Harvey Kaye of the UW- Green Bay. He is the author of Thomas Paine and the Promise of America. (Which sits on my bookshelf unread, alas.) Here is Prof. Kaye on Bill Moyers' Journal:
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