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American dream

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American dream
the idealistic notion that Americans are preoccupied with obtaining certain materialistic goals. The American dream of home ownership, a car in the garage, and a chicken in every pot started in the early thirties.
See also: American, dream


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Clinton praised Einstein as an extraordinary college of medicine that embodies the American dream of tolerance and provides a better world for our children.
In particular, I am interested in exploring the class assumptions of the American Dream and the conflation of the American Dream with American evangelicalism as it impacts the ethic of evangelicalism.
Your cover story suggesting Americans learn from Europe to create new American Dream underscores a fundamental problem in American society.
 
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