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America's bestselling biographer reveals the origins of the most revolutionary sentence in the Declaration of Independence, the one that defines who we are as Americans-and explains how it should shape our politics today.
To celebrate America's 250th anniversary, Walter Isaacson takes readers on a fascinating deep dive into the creation…
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Author Walter Isaacson, known for his biographies of famous people including Benjamin Franklin and Leonardo da Vinci, devotes the entire work to analyzing the second sentence in the Declaration of Independence: 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.
Isaacson notes how small changes to the document—written by Thomas Jefferson and edited by Benjamin Franklin and John Adams—impacted the overall work: Jefferson originally…
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