<p>On the eve of the republic’s 250th birthday, at a time of great political division, historian and biographer Walter Isaacson has a new book about the drafting of the Declaration of Independence, “The Greatest Sentence Ever Written.” He says that the words of the American founders carry lessons for how to regain political unity today.</p>
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On GPS: Walter Isaacson on 'The Greatest Sentence Ever Written'
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On the eve of the republic’s 250th birthday, at a time of great political division, historian and biographer Walter Isaacson has a new book about the drafting of the Declaration of Independence, “The Greatest Sentence Ever Written.” He says that the words of the American founders carry lessons for how to regain political unity today.

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<p>On the eve of the republic’s 250th birthday, at a time of great political division, historian and biographer Walter Isaacson has a new book about the drafting of the Declaration of Independence, “The Greatest Sentence Ever Written.” He says that the words of the American founders carry lessons for how to regain political unity today.</p>
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