EPISODE · Jan 15, 2026 · 4 MIN
Book Review: The Greatest Sentence Ever Written
from Baum on Books · host Joan Baum
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.
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