My Wish on Independence Day
Anthony Iannarino
JULY 4, 2019
There are not too many written documents as important—or beautiful—as the Preamble to the Declaration of Independence , written by Thomas Jefferson with coaching from John Adams, two men who would later be political rivals, and later still friends (both of whom would die a few hours apart on July 4th, 1826). The document itself is a product of its time, as were the men who wrote it, which is to say flawed by the contradictions we recognize between their aspirational words and some of their actio
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