num_pages: 128
description: This biography traces the history of 'The Rights of Man' from the publication of Part One in 1791 in London and its rapturous reception across the Atlantic. Hitchens analyses the meaning it has acquired since its creation and its significance as the cornerstone of contemporary debates about our basic human rights.
language: English
title: Thomas Paine's " Rights of Man " : A Biography
titlecomplete: Thomas Paine's " Rights of Man " : A Biography (Books That Shook the World)
characters: Edmund Burke, Thomas Jefferson, George Orwell, Thomas Paine
genres: Biography, Political Science, History, Politics, Philosophy, American History, Religion, American, Nonfiction, Biography Memoir
ratings_count: 2691
series: Books That Changed the World
publisher: Atlantic Monthly Press