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The American Dream by Jim Cullen, Paperback | Indigo Chapters

From Jim Cullen

Current price: $17.95
The American Dream by Jim Cullen, Paperback | Indigo Chapters
The American Dream by Jim Cullen, Paperback | Indigo Chapters

Indigo

The American Dream by Jim Cullen, Paperback | Indigo Chapters

From Jim Cullen

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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 theseveral 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 expressedin 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 otherdemographic 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 ofHollywood. For anyone seeking to understand a shifting but central idea in American history, The American Dream is an interpretive tour de force. | The American Dream by Jim Cullen, Paperback | Indigo Chapters

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