Download or read book Jefferson and the Rights of Man - written by Dumas Malone and published by Little, Brown. This book was released on 1951-01-30 with total page 523 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The second volume in this Pulitzer Prize-winning biography tells the story of the eventful middle years in the life of Thomas Jefferson: his ministry to France in the years just before the French Revolution and during the early stages of that conflict; his service as secretary of state in President George Washington's first cabinet; the crucial period of his first differences with Alexander Hamilton and the beginnings of his long struggle with the Federalists. .