UID:
edoccha_9958063140802883
Format:
1 online resource (225 p.)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
0-19-771122-7
,
0-19-983971-9
,
1-280-55891-1
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0-19-803592-6
,
0-19-530398-9
Series Statement:
Oxford scholarship online
Content:
This work discusses the reality of the ambiguous but galvanizing 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.
Note:
Previously issued in print: 2003.
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Contents; Introduction: A Dream Country; CHAPTER 1 Dream of the Good Life (I): The Puritan Enterprise; CHAPTER 2 Dream Charter: The Declaration of Independence; CHAPTER 3 Dream of the Good Life (II): Upward Mobility; CHAPTER 4 King of America: The Dream of Equality; CHAPTER 5 Detached Houses: The Dream of Home Ownership; CHAPTER 6 Dream of the Good Life (III): The Coast; Conclusion: Extending the Dream; Notes on Sources; Acknowledgments; Index
,
English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-19-517325-2
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-19-515821-0
Language:
English
DOI:
10.1093/oso/9780195158212.001.0001
