Ted Widmer: The Living Declaration

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Ted Widmer discusses The Living Declaration: A Biography of America's Founding Text, a Library of America anthology that traces how the Declaration of Independence has shaped democratic aspirations, through sixty-eight writings by figures including John Locke, Frederick Douglass, Hannah Arendt and Ho Chi Minh. Widmer, a former speechwriter and senior adviser to Bill Clinton, is the author of Lincoln on the Verge.

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