All Men Are Created Equal?

The Paul Truesdell Podcast · Feb 17, 2026 · 16m

Scheduling Prevented Paul From Recording

THE GREATEST SENTENCE EVER WRITTEN

Walter Isaacson’s Timely Meditation on America’s Founding Creed

A Discussion, Elaboration, and Outline

Introduction: Thirty-Five Words That Built a Nation

There is something audacious about writing a book on a single sentence. But when the sentence in question is the second line of the Declaration of Independence—the one that begins “We hold these truths to be self-evident”—the audacity seems proportionate to the subject. Walter Isaacson’s The Greatest Sentence Ever Written, published by Simon & Schuster in November…