2025-11-16 16:31:37 CET

Walter Isaacson on "The Greatest Sentence Ever Written"

As America approaches its 250th birthday, the bestselling biographer and historian reflects on the message of the Declaration of Independence, and how it is just as vital to us today as it was in 1776.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/walter-isaacson-on-the-greatest-sentence-ever-written/

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