The American Dream: A Short History of an Idea that Shaped a NationOxford University Press, 2003 M02 6 - 224 páginas "The American Dream" is one of the most familiar and resonant phrases in our national lexicon, so familiar that we seldom pause to ask its origin, its history, or what it actually means. In this fascinating short history, Jim Cullen explores the meaning of the American Dream, or rather the several American Dreams that have both reflected and shaped American identity from the Pilgrims to the present. Cullen notes that the United States, unlike most other nations, defines itself not on the facts of blood, religion, language, geography, or shared history, but on a set of ideals expressed in the Declaration of Independence and consolidated in the Constitution. At the core of these ideals lies the ambiguous concept of the American Dream, a concept that for better and worse has proven to be amazingly elastic and durable for hundreds of years and across racial, class, and other demographic lines. The version of the American Dream that dominates our own time--what Cullen calls "the Dream of the Coast"--is one of personal fulfillment, of fame and fortune all the more alluring if achieved without obvious effort, which finds its most insidious expression in the culture of Hollywood. |
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... live the life he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours. —Henry David Thoreau, Walden, 1854 THAT TITLE won't wo RK, James Truslow Adams was. No. told. No one will pay three dollars for a book about a dream ...
... live the life he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours. —Henry David Thoreau, Walden, 1854 THAT TITLE won't wo RK, James Truslow Adams was. No. told. No one will pay three dollars for a book about a dream ...
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... lives of ordinary citizens far more than local government does. Economic and racial stratification have grown markedly, raising doubts about the breadth and depth of opportunity. And amid the greatest surge of immigration in our history ...
... lives of ordinary citizens far more than local government does. Economic and racial stratification have grown markedly, raising doubts about the breadth and depth of opportunity. And amid the greatest surge of immigration in our history ...
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... lives that otherwise might not be deemed worth living. The American Dream would have no drama or mystique if it were a self-evident falsehood or a scientifically demonstrable principle. Ambiguity is the very source of its mythic power ...
... lives that otherwise might not be deemed worth living. The American Dream would have no drama or mystique if it were a self-evident falsehood or a scientifically demonstrable principle. Ambiguity is the very source of its mythic power ...
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... lives. Agency, in turn, lies at the very core of the American Dream, the bedrock premise upon which all else depends. To ... live out an imagined life. One of the greatest ironies perhaps the greatest of the American Dream is that its ...
... lives. Agency, in turn, lies at the very core of the American Dream, the bedrock premise upon which all else depends. To ... live out an imagined life. One of the greatest ironies perhaps the greatest of the American Dream is that its ...
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... live alongside them. In the succinct words of a literary critic in the s, the Puritans were people “who massacred Indians and established the self-righteous religion and politics that An engraving ...
... live alongside them. In the succinct words of a literary critic in the s, the Puritans were people “who massacred Indians and established the self-righteous religion and politics that An engraving ...
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The Declaration of Independence | |
Upward Mobility | |
The Dream of Equality | |
The Dream of Home Ownership | |
The Coast | |
Extending the Dream | |
Notes on Sources | |
Acknowledgments | |
Index | |
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