The Greatest Sentence Ever Written

His new book is called The Greatest Sentence Ever Written.

And it's about the most powerful sentence in the Declaration of Independence.

His new book is called The Greatest Sentence Ever Written. And it's about the most powerful sentence in the Declaration of Independence. And he just breaks it down word by word and how meticulous it was.

The greatest sentence ever written, there were deep flaws when they said all men are created equal. But they did set us on the right mission.

It's very short. It is. I was going to say, if you have a short attention, this is the Isaacson book for you to take on.

I'll be eager to read Walter Isaacson's book, but he talked about it with me on a podcast.

Later, Author and Historian Walter Isaacson discusses his new book, The Greatest Sentence Ever Written, and how the Declaration of Independence's enduring ideals might help unify a divided nation.

His new book is about that single sentence, how it was crafted, why those 35 were chosen, and what they say about our country. It's called The Greatest Sentence Ever Written.

It was probably the last time Congress created a good committee. It has Benjamin Franklin, John Adams, and of course, Thomas Jefferson, who writes the first draft.

And so Franklin's saying we're creating a new type of nation in which our rights come from rationality, not the dogma of a religion. But the sentence goes on, and Jefferson had it, they derive rights. But John Adams writes in, they're endowed by their creator with rights.

I love the fact that when Jefferson writes the first draft and he's very kind to Ben Franklin who edits and stuff. But then other people in the Continental Congress start editing it and he hates it.