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

Poynter · Roy Peter Clark · last updated

Walter Isaacson calls it the greatest. Roy Peter Clark puts it under the microscope.

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 biographer of Leonardo da Vinci, Steve Jobs, Albert Einstein, Henry Kissinger and Benjamin Franklin.

 

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