NOVEL REFLECTIONS ON THE AMERICAN DREAM
ERICA JONG: Americans really believe in self-invention. Making yourself into a more successful, richer, more genteel, more intelligent person. It's the American dream.
RICHARD YARBOROUGH:
The American dream is possibility. The American dream is freedom.
ANDREW DELBANCO:
All of us have some ancestral image of someone getting off a boat or a plane or a maybe stepping out of a wagon train heading west. That is someone who has made a decision, made a choice to change their life.
MATTHEW J. BRUCCOLI:
The idea of the self-made man is a quintessentially American notion.
MAUREEN HOWARD:
The idea that if you are a serious and earnest person and you work hard enough, nothing will stand in your way. You will make it.
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