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Cullen explores American history through its ideals and notions that feed goals from which success and happiness are perceived and secured. At different times the American dream has meant different things. At the founding of the nation, Cullen asserts, the Declaration of Independence embodied the American ideal that all men are created equal. Even with the obvious contradiction of slavery, the essence of this dream allowed for the possibility of racial equality, class mobility, and home ownership--all values that at some point have centered the collective American consciousness. Cullen explores the ideas, hopes, and accomplishments of both native-born Americans and immigrants in developing consensus around the ideals. As the dream varies, Cullen tracks its shifts and the complexities that result in our cultural unity of valued ideals. From the initial ideals of the Declaration of Independence, Cullen moves to the expansion and inclusion of the dream through Martin Luther King Jr.'s dream of racial equality to, finally, home ownership as the commonly accepted notion of the American dream. Vernon Ford
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"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.
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The American Dream
10. Januar 2007
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Cullen's book is not only an easy read but incredibly enjoyable and informative. Mr. Cullen has an incredible understanding of American history and the elusive words and ideas that drive it. This book changed the way I look at my country...
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Much food for thought!
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This is an intellectual history of an important idea in American life. Cullen is a fine historian whose love for the subject matter shines forth on each page.
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9. Januar 2012
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American Dream
Message/Content
The story of the American Dream is defiantely one of a kind. The American Dream starts off as a struggle between a house hold, but in the end the book becomes much more than that. It becomes a real life example of how everyone world wide feels about their life. Every person has an "American Dream" no matter what country or background they come from. This book gives examples of how life was in the United States many years ago, and how much people had to work to fulfill their American dream.
Tone/Writing Style
In this book I found it a little odd that the only persons name that was revealed was Mrs. Barkers. The book only referred to the other characters as Mother, Daddy, Grandma, and Grandpa. The book also had a few flash backs through out. The flashbacks helped to clear up exactly what the events were leading up to the story. You really had to read to the end in order to figure out what exactly was going on. The majority of the story was revealed and resolved in the final pages of the book. The tone of the story changed many times through out the book, but the overall tone and the way the book concluded was overwhelming happy. The book had a very positive end.
Overall Impact
I enjoyed reading this book because it really made me feel thankful for everything that I have, and all the opportunities . This simple story relates to the world in countless ways. It shows how everyone has their own American dream, how everyone is capable of making someone's life better, and how everyone no matter where they are from can work together to make the entire world a better place.
Message/Content
The story of the American Dream is defiantely one of a kind. The American Dream starts off as a struggle between a house hold, but in the end the book becomes much more than that. It becomes a real life example of how everyone world wide feels about their life. Every person has an "American Dream" no matter what country or background they come from. This book gives examples of how life was in the United States many years ago, and how much people had to work to fulfill their American dream.
Tone/Writing Style
In this book I found it a little odd that the only persons name that was revealed was Mrs. Barkers. The book only referred to the other characters as Mother, Daddy, Grandma, and Grandpa. The book also had a few flash backs through out. The flashbacks helped to clear up exactly what the events were leading up to the story. You really had to read to the end in order to figure out what exactly was going on. The majority of the story was revealed and resolved in the final pages of the book. The tone of the story changed many times through out the book, but the overall tone and the way the book concluded was overwhelming happy. The book had a very positive end.
Overall Impact
I enjoyed reading this book because it really made me feel thankful for everything that I have, and all the opportunities . This simple story relates to the world in countless ways. It shows how everyone has their own American dream, how everyone is capable of making someone's life better, and how everyone no matter where they are from can work together to make the entire world a better place.
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