Let’s Read! July

The Greatest Sentence Ever Written by Walter Isaacson

Book Club

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Location: Zoom
Admission: Free
Language: English
Registration: Please register via anmeldung@daz.org

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In July Let’s Read! will discuss The Greatest Sentence Ever Written by Walter Isaacson (80 pp).

To mark the 250th anniversary of the U.S. Declaration of Independence, we are reading this slim and very approachable book by Isaacson, a journalist and biographer. In it, he illustrates how the people involved in drafting the Declaration came to agree on the sentence stating that „all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.“ To round out this discussion, we will look at two excerpts from the Frederick Douglass speech “What to the Slave is the 4th of July?” and from the 1848 Seneca Falls Declaration of Sentiments.

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