About this episode

Joan Baum reviews Walter Isaacson's work on the significance of a sentence in the Declaration of Independence.

Two hundred fifty years ago this year, the United States was born. It was written into existence with the Declaration of Independence. A new work by journalist Walter Isaacson focuses on the power of one specific sentence in that historic document and how it shaped a new nation. WSHU’s Culture Critic Joan Baum read it and has this review.

People in this episode

Host: Joan Baum

Topics covered

• book review
• Declaration of Independence
• historical analysis
• journalism
• American history

Keywords

• book review
• Walter Isaacson
• Declaration of Independence
• American history
• historical significance

Mentioned in this episode

Books & works: Declaration of Independence, The Greatest Sentence Ever Written

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