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Gripping . . . Vibrant . . . A wonderfully absorbing and stimulating book. Sarah Bakewell, NBCC Awardwinning author of How to Live and Humanly Possible

[A] rollicking account . . . The book's compulsive readability is a tribute to Moore's skill at cracking open the pre-revolutionary period. Charles Arrowsmith, The Washington Post

A spirited group biography that explores the origins of the most iconic words in American history, and the remarkable transatlantic context from which they emerged.

The most famous phrase in American history once looked quite different. The preservation of life, & liberty, & the pursuit of happiness was how Thomas Jefferson put it in the first draft of the Declaration, before the first ampersand was scratched out, along with the preservation of. In a statement as pithyand contestedas this, a small deletion matters. And indeed, that final, iconizing revision was the last in a long chain of revisions str

Life Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness

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      Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 27/06/2023
      ISBN13: 9780374600594, 978-0374600594
      ISBN10: 0374600597

      Description

      Book Synopsis

      Gripping . . . Vibrant . . . A wonderfully absorbing and stimulating book. Sarah Bakewell, NBCC Awardwinning author of How to Live and Humanly Possible

      [A] rollicking account . . . The book's compulsive readability is a tribute to Moore's skill at cracking open the pre-revolutionary period. Charles Arrowsmith, The Washington Post

      A spirited group biography that explores the origins of the most iconic words in American history, and the remarkable transatlantic context from which they emerged.

      The most famous phrase in American history once looked quite different. The preservation of life, & liberty, & the pursuit of happiness was how Thomas Jefferson put it in the first draft of the Declaration, before the first ampersand was scratched out, along with the preservation of. In a statement as pithyand contestedas this, a small deletion matters. And indeed, that final, iconizing revision was the last in a long chain of revisions str

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