Walter Isaacson: The Greatest Sentence Ever Written

Commonwealth Club of California Podcast by Commonwealth Club of California

Oct 13, 202662:08News & Politics

In celebration of America’s 250th anniversary, bestselling biographer Walter Isaacson has taken a fascinating deep dive into the creation of one of history’s most powerful sentences: “We hold these truths to be self-evid...

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