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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... perhaps the greatest of the American Dream is that its foundations were laid by people who specifically rejected a belief that they did have control over their destinies. In its broadest sense, you might say that the narrative arc of ...
... perhaps the greatest of the American Dream is that its foundations were laid by people who specifically rejected a belief that they did have control over their destinies. In its broadest sense, you might say that the narrative arc of ...
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... perhaps here was a true holy land. Yet here too they were disappointed. The most far-sighted of these Separatists “began both deeply to apprehend their present dangers [of moral corruption] and wisely to foresee the future and think of ...
... perhaps here was a true holy land. Yet here too they were disappointed. The most far-sighted of these Separatists “began both deeply to apprehend their present dangers [of moral corruption] and wisely to foresee the future and think of ...
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... perhaps in an afterlife, one will have racked up enough points on a moral scorecard to get into heaven (a forgiving God giving the benefit of any doubt). But if the matter is already decided before one is even born, then what's the ...
... perhaps in an afterlife, one will have racked up enough points on a moral scorecard to get into heaven (a forgiving God giving the benefit of any doubt). But if the matter is already decided before one is even born, then what's the ...
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... perhaps for the deadlandlord whose estate paid their income). Perhaps you sense a tension, even a contradiction, here. On the one hand, the Puritans believed and acted as if a person could make a difference in making the world a better ...
... perhaps for the deadlandlord whose estate paid their income). Perhaps you sense a tension, even a contradiction, here. On the one hand, the Puritans believed and acted as if a person could make a difference in making the world a better ...
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... perhaps less a shining example than a potential object of ridicule. “The eyes of all people are upon us, so that if we shall deal falsely with our God in this work we have undertaken, and so cause him to withdraw his present help from ...
... perhaps less a shining example than a potential object of ridicule. “The eyes of all people are upon us, so that if we shall deal falsely with our God in this work we have undertaken, and so cause him to withdraw his present help from ...
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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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