Joseph J. Ellis says he got the idea for his latest book while listening to some middle school students struggling to recite Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address: Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation…
Suddenly Ellis realized that Honest Abe’s math was wrong. The new nation really wasn’t created in 1776 but rather in 1787 when the Constitution was written — or maybe two years later, when it had been ratified and George Washington took office as the first president of the United States of America.
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