What is the American Dream?
User Rating: / 0 PoorBest Written by Steve Gillman Tuesday, 24 February 2009 digg_url = ‘http://www.webraydian.com/content/view/1152/32/’; digg_title = ‘What Is The American Dream?’; digg_bgcolor = ‘#ffffff’; Word Count: 674 What is the American Dream? Is it two kids, a new car, a good job, and a big new house with a pet dog to greet you at the door? Hmm… At least there was a deeper conception of it when it was invented. James Truslow Adams answered the question “What is the American Dream?” in his book, “The Epic of America” in 1931. In fact, that was the first time the term was used. He called it, “that dream of a land in which life should be better and richer and fuller for everyone, with opportunity for each according to ability or achievement. It is a difficult dream for the European upper classes to interpret adequately, and too many of us ourselves have grown weary and mistrustful of it. It is not a dream of motor cars and high wages merely, but a dream of social order in whic
