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The American Dream: A Short History Of An Idea That Shaped A Nation By
Jim Cullen (Paperback, 2004)
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 begins by noting 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 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 Cullen then traces a series of overlapping American dreams the quest for of religious freedom that brought the Pilgrims to the New World; the political freedom promised in the Declaration; the dream of upward mobility embodied most fully in the figure of Abraham Lincoln; the dream of home ownership from homestead to suburb; the intensely idealistic-and largely unrealized-dream of equality articulated most vividly by Martin Luther King Jr 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 For anyone seeking to understand a shifting but central idea in American history The American Dream is an interpretive tour de force
to be amazingly elastic and durable for hundreds of years and across racial class and other demographic lines Cullen then traces a series of overlapping American dreams the quest for of religious freedom that brought the Pilgrims to the New World; the political freedom promised in the Declaration; the dream of upward mobility embodied most fully in the figure of Abraham Lincoln; the dream of home ownership from homestead to suburb; the intensely idealistic-and largely unrealized-dream of equality articulated most vividly by Martin Luther King Jr 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 For anyone seeking to understand a shifting but central idea in American history The American Dream is an interpretive tour de force
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