The American Dream Discussion Padlet by Kristen DePesa https://padlet.com/kristendepesa/americandreamdiscussion Sources for Discussion en-us 2023-09-06 17:27:52 UTC 2023-09-14 12:57:50 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet.net/icons/png/1f5fd.png kristendepesa https://padlet.com/kristendepesa/americandreamdiscussion/wish/2687235097 2023-09-06 17:38:24 UTC https://padlet.com/kristendepesa/americandreamdiscussion/wish/2687235097 Discussion Rubric kristendepesa https://padlet.com/kristendepesa/americandreamdiscussion/wish/2687237366 2023-09-06 17:39:34 UTC https://padlet.com/kristendepesa/americandreamdiscussion/wish/2687237366 kristendepesa https://padlet.com/kristendepesa/americandreamdiscussion/wish/2687257867 2023-09-06 17:51:53 UTC https://padlet.com/kristendepesa/americandreamdiscussion/wish/2687257867 kristendepesa https://padlet.com/kristendepesa/americandreamdiscussion/wish/2687258108 2023-09-06 17:52:01 UTC https://padlet.com/kristendepesa/americandreamdiscussion/wish/2687258108 The Statue of Liberty kristendepesa https://padlet.com/kristendepesa/americandreamdiscussion/wish/2687263979 2023-09-06 17:55:43 UTC https://padlet.com/kristendepesa/americandreamdiscussion/wish/2687263979 The New Colossus - America kristendepesa https://padlet.com/kristendepesa/americandreamdiscussion/wish/2687264778 2023-09-06 17:56:16 UTC https://padlet.com/kristendepesa/americandreamdiscussion/wish/2687264778 kristendepesa https://padlet.com/kristendepesa/americandreamdiscussion/wish/2687267760 2023-09-06 17:58:04 UTC https://padlet.com/kristendepesa/americandreamdiscussion/wish/2687267760 kristendepesa https://padlet.com/kristendepesa/americandreamdiscussion/wish/2687270149 There was, in fact, a founding father of the American Dream. He was James Truslow Adams and he coined the phrase in his 1931 bestseller The Epic of America. Adams, who was no relation to the Presidential Adamses, had actually wanted to name the book after his central thesis, but his publisher thought that a book called The American Dream wouldn’t sell well during the Great Depression.

Adams’s definition: “a dream of a social order in which each man and each woman shall be able to attain to the fullest stature of which they are innately capable, and be recognized by others for what they are, regardless of the fortuitous circumstances of birth or position.”

He put it more succinctly elsewhere in the book: a “dream of a better, richer and happier life for all our citizens of every rank.”
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