The greatest sentence ever written
"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,...
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| Language: | English |
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New York :
Simon & Schuster,
2025.
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| Edition: | First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition. |
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Table of Contents:
- 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
- Appendices: 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.
