The evolution of the American dream
Subtitle: how the promise of equal opportunity became a quest for equal results
By: Bob Skandalaris with Amber Clark
Contributors: Clark, Amber
Publisher: Pembrook Pub.
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Auburn Hills, Mich
Language: eng
Number of pages: 296
ISBN-13: 9780977174331
Subjects: American Dream; Rêve américain
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 283-288) and index.
Table of contents: title: Ch. 1. The dram of a new life in the Land of Opportunity; title: Ch. 2. The dream of self-government and Manifest Destiny; title: Ch. 3. The dream of freedom and justice for all; title: Ch. 4. The dream of wealth in the Gilded Age; title: Ch. 5. Reinventing the dream in the Progressive Era; title: Ch. 6. The dream of the good life in the Consumer Age; title: Ch. 7. The dream of Social Security and freedom from want; title: Ch. 8. The dream of home ownership and a college education; title: Ch. 9. The dream of equality of opportunity and equality of results; title: Ch. 10. The dream of a Great Society and the Age of Entitlement; title: Ch. 11. The dream of morning in America and the Reagan revolution; title: Ch. 12. The dream of global capitalism in the Information Age; title: Ch. 13. The American fantasy and the pursuit of unhappiness; title: Ch. 14. The future of the American dream.