The American Dream: A Cultural History

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207 Notes Introduction 1. Jim Cullen, The American Dream: A Short History of an Idea That Shaped a Nation; Cal Jillson, Pursuing the American Dream: Opportunity and Exclusion over Four Centuries. 2. Jennifer L. Hochschild, Facing Up to the American Dream: Race, Class, and the Soul of the Nation, xi; Robert Bellah, “Civil Religion in America,” in The Robert Bellah Reader, edited by Robert N. Bellah and Steven M. Tipton, 225. 3. Lee Artz and Bren Ortega Murphy, Cultural Hegemony in the United States, 275; Jillson, Pursuing the American Dream, 1. 4. Cullen, American Dream, 136. 5. Robert Sklar, Movie-Made America: A Cultural History of the American Movies, 215, 195–97, 3. 6. David Kamp, “Rethinking the American Dream,” Vanity Fair, Apr. 2009, 118+. 7. Christopher Lasch, The Culture of Narcissism: American Life in an Age of Diminishing Expectations, 52–66. 8. Kamp, “Rethinking the American Dream.” 1. The Epic of America 1. “American Dream Village Comes to Life for Yuletide,” Los Angeles Times, Dec. 19, 1938, 6. 2. James Truslow Adams, “America Faces 1933’s Realities,” New York Times, Jan. 1, 1933, SM1. 3. Adams, “America Faces 1933’s Realities.” 4. James Truslow Adams, “What of ‘the American Dream’?,” New York Times, May 14, 1933, SM1. 208 | Notes to Pages 14–23 5. H. S. Commager, review of The Epic of America, by Adams, Books, Oct. 4, 1931, 1; Karl Schriftglesser, Boston Transcript, review of The Epic of America, by Adams, Oct. 10, 1931, 5. 6. Allen Sinclair Will, “America, Nation of Dreamers,” New York Times, Oct. 4, 1931, 61. 7. Anthony Brandt, “The American Dream,” American Heritage (Apr.–May 1981): 24–25. 8. “Says Pioneer Spirit Is America’s Guide,” New York Times, Nov. 6, 1932, 8. 9. “Znaniecki Fears Economic Tyranny,” New York Times, July 16, 1933, N1. 10. Brooks Atkinson, “Fate of the Idealist,” New York Times, Mar. 5, 1933, X1. 11. “Says Nation Fails in Human Relations,” New York Times, June 20, 1932, 6. 12. “Miss Thompson Offers Plan to Fight Fascism,” Washington Post, Feb. 6, 1936, 13. 13. David Behrens, “Monopoly Marks 50th Anniversary,” Los Angeles Times, July 31, 1983, F2. 14. “Millikan Assails Trade Rule by U.S. as Threat to Freedom,” Chicago Daily Tribune, Aug. 7, 1934, 5. 15. James Truslow Adams, “‘Rugged Individualism’ Analyzed,” New York Times, Mar. 18, 1934, SM1. 16. Charles A. Beard, “The Myth of Rugged American Individualism,” Harper’s Monthly Magazine, Dec. 1931, 13–22. 17. Adams, “‘Rugged Individualism’ Analyzed.” 18. Shelby Cullom Davis, “Toward the American Dream,” Current History, Dec. 1939, 41–43. 19. “The American Dream,” Atlanta Constitution, Nov. 26, 1938, 6. 20. “Stern Comment on American Freedom,” New York Times, Mar. 24, 1940, 73. 21. “The Texts of Willkie’s Campaign Addresses in Queens and at the World’s Fair,” New York Times, Oct. 27, 1940, 42. 22. “Check Roosevelt, Hoover Demands,” New York Times, Nov. 2, 1940, 1. 23. “Mark Twain’s Odyssey,” Hartford Courant, Dec. 3, 1935, 10. 24. Paul Jordan-Smith, “New Books and Their Makers,” Los Angeles Times, Aug. 23, 1936, C8. 25. Stanley Young, “A Wide-Sweeping Novel of American Generations,” New York Times, June 27, 1937, 78. Notes to Pages 23–34 | 209 26. Ralph Thompson, “Books of the Times,” New York Times, June 18, 1937, 19. 27. Percy Hutchison, “The American Dream,” New York Times, Oct. 4, 1936, BR9. 28. Ibid. 29. “London Times Weighs American Farm Ideal,” New York Times, Feb. 23, 1937, 23. 30. R. L. Duffus, “The Story of the American Dream of a Better Life,” New York Times, Feb. 19, 1939, 86. 31. Lewis Gannett, “Books and Things,” Washington Post, Feb. 17, 1939, 9. 32. Duffus, “American Dream of a Better Life.” 33. Rose Lee Martin, “Lone Star State Still Goes It Alone,” New York Times, June 7, 1936, 111. 34. Rockwell D. Hunt, “The American Dream,” Los Angeles Times, Dec. 18, 1937, A4. 35. William MacDonald, “Toward the American Dream,” New York Times, Nov. 27, 1938, 114. 36. Katherine Woods, “Emigrants from Europe and the American Dream,” New York Times, Oct. 20, 1940, 94. 37. “Voices from Many Lands Tell Americanism Views,” Los Angeles Times, Oct. 27, 1940, C6. 38. Woods, “Emigrants from Europe and the American Dream.” 39. Herschel Brickell, “Three Centuries of Utopian Settlements in America ,” New York Times, Apr. 13, 1941, BR11. 40. Eleanor Roosevelt, “My Day: How to Realize the American Dream,” Atlanta Constitution, Jan...