American Dream

The American Dream is the ideal that every US citizen should have an equal opportunity to achieve success and prosperity through hard work, determination, and initiative. This idea is rooted in the Declaration of Independence. It has to do with a set of ideals: democracy, rights, liberty, opportunity, and equality.

Background

Extended definition of the term. Historian James Truslow Adams popularized the phrase "American Dream" in his 1931 book Epic of America. Disciplinary history? Significant figures, theorists, etc.?

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