Walter Isaacson on "The Greatest Sentence Ever Written"

With just months to go before the 250th birthday of the United States, thoughts this morning from bestselling biographer Walter Isaacson:

We've got a big birthday coming up next year – our 250th. Here's my wish: Let's not blow this opportunity.

We're so polarized these days that we may not be in the mood for a party. Everything seems to divide us.

But perhaps we can use this opportunity to celebrate what unites us, rather than stoke the things that divide us, just like we did for our Bicentennial after the fraught years of Vietnam and Watergate.

One way to do it is by reflecting on our shared creed, proclaimed in the Declaration of Independence sentence that begins: "We hold these truths to be self-evident..."

I've just written a little book about how the drafting committee, which