Prep school teacher and historian cullen, who once recast bruce springsteen in the mold of ralph waldo emerson born in the u. For a book that has made such a lasting contribution to our vocabulary, the epic of america is an offbeat piece of worka sweeping. A strange stirring audiobook stephanie coontz audible. It wasnt exactly our logic two hundred years later, but it made a kind of sense cullen 51. Students work in groups to read an excerpt from the introduction to the american dream. As the subtitle suggests this book is the history of an idea and cullen traces the idea of the american dream from the puritans to hollywood. 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. Jim cullens most popular book is the american dream. Adams described the american dream as a dream of land in which life. Making ai serve us all scott, kevin, shaw, greg, vance, j.
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