The American Dream has been a driving force in the development and
success of our nation and a key motivating factor in all that we
have achieved, individually and collectively. But what is the
American Dream, exactly, and how has it changed over the course of
America's history? This is the question that Bob Skandalaris and
Amber Clark explore in their latest book, The Evolution of the
American Dream. From the dream of land and a new start in the
colonial era, to the dream of political and religious freedom
during the Revolutionary War, to the dream of living a life of
self-reliance on the frontier or amassing a vast fortune as a
captain of industry in the nineteenth century, the American Dream
has constantly evolved. By the early twentieth century, it was
living the good life; then during the Great Depression it took a
sharp swing toward security and ensuring the comforts of a
middle-class lifestyle rather than chasing a better one. As
prosperity returned after World War II, the dream morphed into a
house in the suburbs and a college education for one's children,
and then into a vision of a Great Society where government could
cure all social ills and ensure constant upward mobility. That
version of the American Dream, however, cannot last. In an era of
global capitalism, the American Dream has now become the Chinese
Dream, the Indian Dream, and the World Dream. People across the
globe are not only taking "our" jobs, but also appropriating the
dream itself-and the question is, what will that do to the American
Dream for Americans? Will it force us to reinvent and redefine the
dream once more, as we have done so often in the past? Or will the
American Dream disappear from our shores entirely? Is the there
still an authentic, achievable version of the American Dream today?
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