The Greatest Sentence Ever Written by Walter Isaacson with Autographed Bookplate

The famous second sentence of the Declaration of the Independence, crafted by Thomas Jefferson and edited by Benjamin Franklin and John Adams, became the creed that bound a diverse group of pilgrims and immigrants into one nation. For a people with many different beliefs and backgrounds, it defined our common ground and American Dream.

Many of us know the sentence by heart, but we may not fully appreciate its profound wisdom. For the 250th birthday of the Declaration that founded our nation, bestselling historian Walter Isaacson analyzes and celebrates, word by word, how this sentence was crafted, what it truly means, and how we can honor, in these troubled times, its underlying values.