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James Truslow Adams (October 18, 1878 – May 18, 1949) [1] was an American writer and historian. He was a freelance author who helped to popularize the latest scholarship about American history and his three-volume history of New England is well regarded by scholars. [2] He popularized the phrase "American Dream" in his 1931 book The Epic of ...
The American Dream is the national ethos of the United States, that every person has the freedom and opportunity to succeed and attain a better life. [ 2 ] The phrase was popularized by James Truslow Adams during the Great Depression in 1931, [ 3 ] and has had different meanings over time.
Manifest destiny was a phrase that represented the belief in the 19th-century United States that American settlers were destined to expand westward across North America, and that this belief was both obvious ("manifest") and certain ("destiny"). The belief was rooted in American exceptionalism and Romantic nationalism, implying the inevitable ...
The phrase "self-made man" can be found in both American and British periodicals in the 1820s. General Samuel Blackburn running for office in Virginia in 1824 used it to describe himself. [ 3 ] The English writer William Hazlitt described Lord Chatham in The New Monthly Magazine in 1826 as "a self-made man, bred in a camp, not in a court."
American dream is ‘Antithetical to British culture’ Blomfield said the American dream wasn’t a reality that a lot of people in the U.S. get to live, but it was one that a lot of them experience.
But the American dream is slowly slipping out of sight —in fact, nearly half the nation no longer believes it’s attainable at all. This is a point of concern for JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon ...
The emerging American financial system was based on railroad bonds. By 1860, New York was the dominant financial market. The British invested heavily in railroads around the world, but nowhere more so than the United States; The total came to about $3 billion by 1914. In 1914–1917, they liquidated their American assets to pay for war supplies.
The American Dream is collapsing, and it’s knocking billionaires off their pedestals. Chloe Berger. August 15, 2024 at 5:11 AM. Klaus Vedfelt—Getty images. Whether it be Bill Gates or Elon ...