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Is this sentence in the Declaration of Independence really the greatest ever written?

I can’t think of a more fitting celebration of this Fourth of July than a reading of Walter Isaacson’s thin volume “The Greatest Sentence Ever Written.” Isaacson is an influential public scholar and ...

How 'the greatest sentence ever written' defined a new nation

Historian and journalist Walter Isaacson writes that the Declaration's second sentence 'defines an enduring mission.' ...