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Isaacson, Walter, author.

The greatest sentence ever written / Walter Isaacson.

First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.

New York : Simon & Schuster, 2025.

67 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm

To celebrate America's 250th anniversary, Walter Isaacson takes readers on a ... deep dive into the creation of one of history's most powerful sentences: 'We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness.' Drafted by Thomas Jefferson and edited by Benjamin Franklin and John Adams, this line lays the foundation for the American Dream and defines the common ground we share as a nation. Isaacson unpacks its genius, word by word, illuminating the then-radical concepts behind it.

United States. Declaration of Independence -- Criticism, Textual.

Rhetoric -- Political aspects -- United States.

Equality -- United States.

United States -- Politics and government.

Informational works.

1776 -- We -- Self-evident truths -- All men -- Created equal -- Endowed by their creator -- Certain unalienable rights -- Life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness -- Common ground -- The American dream -- Going forward -- The drafting process ; From John Locke's Second Treatise of Government, 1690 ; From Rousseau's The Social Contract, 1762 ; From the Virginia Declaration of Rights, June 1776 ; Jefferson's "Original rough draught" of the Declaration of Independence, June 1776 ; The Declaration of Independence, July 4, 1776.

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