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\nU.S.A.$35.00  \nCANADA $47.00  \n“A scintillating read.Atmospheric yet analytical,well-paced yet deeply probing,Peter Moore's bookdelivers striking new perspectives with the stylisticgrace of the Founding Fathers.”  \n—DAISY DUNN,author of The ShadowofVesuvius:A Life of Pliny  \nThe most famous phrase in American history oncelooked quite different.“The preservation of life,&liberty,&the pursuit ofhappiness\"was how ThomasJefferson put it in the initial draft of the Declarationof Independence,before the first ampersand wasscratched out,along with “the preservation of.”Ina statement as pithy—and contested—as this,smalldeletions matter.And indeed,that final revision tothe iconic formulation was the last in a long chainof revisions stretching across the Atlantic and back.The precise contours of these three rights have neverbeen pinned down,and yet in making those wordsinto rights,Jefferson reified the hopes (and debates)of not only a group of rebel-statesmen,but also ageneration of 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