It could change your life. The final decade of the second millennium has issued a flourish of books foretelling the end of everything from science to history. In the first decade of the third millennium, books about new beginnings will take their place. Many of today's social critics deplore the effects of multiculturalism in spawning a postmodern era. In his newest book, Charles D. Hayes submits that the American Dream we've learned to champion is an insufficient aspiration for human beings.
Cultural expectations create social reality.
Those who make it, remain unfulfilled. Those who don't, become marginalized and resentful. Either we improve society through our ideas, or we perpetuate its deterioration through a lack of them. If you and I are the beneficiaries of an unjust system stemming from the biases, prejudices, and atrocities of the past, then we have an obligation to remedy the unfairness. Beyond the American Dream points the way to rising above the lock-step patterns of our culture and assuming our rightful roles as thoughtful, responsible citizens.