The Greatest Sentence Ever Written

The founding documents of the United States of America continue to shape how Americans think about how democracies should be run. However, like many Americans, I have forgotten the nuances of how these documents were written and the intentions behind them according to each author. Fortunately, Walter Isaacson realized this growing knowledge gap between theory and practice in the American democratic system and wrote a short account on America’s founding documents, highlighting how each author thought about (and maybe even practiced) the values presented in these documents. To paraphrase Yuval Noah Harari, history is an evolving topic rooted in the past, present, and future, and Isaacson’s latest book entry serves a specific purpose in reminding us of this fact.