The American Dream that crystallized around James Truslow Adams’ The
Epic of America originally formulated in the early 1930s and was
conditioned by a decade of complexity and contradiction, of big
government projects, intensely fierce nationalism, the definition of
the American way, and a distinctive collection of American iconic
narratives has had the power and force to successively reshape America
for every new generation. Indeed, Adam’s dream of opportunity for
each according to ability or achievement shaped against the old class
culture of Europe emphasizes a vision of social order in which each
person can succeed despite their social origins. Barack Obama, a
skillful rhetorician and intelligent politician, talks of restoring
the American and has used its narrative resources to define his
campaign and his policies. In a time of international and domestic
crisis, of massive sovereign debt, of the failure of neoliberalism, of
growing inequalities, the question is whether the American Dream and
the vision of an equal education on which it rests can be revitalized.
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ISBN
9789460917714
Publisert
2018
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SensePublishers
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Engelsk
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Digital bok
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