American Dream Bibliography
- Reference Books
- "American
Dream". International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences, v.1 : p.96-97,
William A. Darity, Jr., editor. Detroit: Macmillan Reference USA, 2008.
- Defines the American Dream with an emphasis on its relationship to
"home ownership and mortgage credit".
- "American dream" /
Michael Kronenwetter. Encyclopedia of modern American social issues, p. 24. Santa Barbara, Calif. : ABC-CLIO, 1997.
[Reference HN57.K73 1997]
- Definition of the American dream which acknowledges that it is hard to define.
- "American
dream" /
Lynda G. Adamson. Thematic guide to the American novel, p. 21-27. Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 2002.
[Reference PS373 .A33 2002]
- Discusses the American dream and how it has been portrayed in literature with detailed looks at
The Great Gatsby, Ragtime, and The Rise of David Levinsky.
- "American dream" /
Robert E. Weir. Class in America : an encyclopedia, v. 1 : p. 23-25,
Robert E. Weir, editor. Westport CT : Greenwood Press, 2007.
[Reference HN90.S6 C564 2007 v.1]
- Discusses how the idea has changed over time and how different groups have exploited it.
(See the index in volume 3 for additional references.)
- "American dream ideology" /
Sandra L. Barnes. Encyclopedia of racism in the United States, v. 1 : p. 21-22,
Pyong Gap Min, editor. Westport CT : Greenwood Press, 2005.
[Reference E184.A1E773 2005 v.1]
- Defines the American dream and discusses the attitudes behind it.
- "Social mobility" /
Christopher Lasch. A companion to American thought, p. 632-634,
Richard Wightman Fox and James T. Kloppenberg, editors. Oxford, U.K. ; Cambridge, Mass. : Blackwell Publishers, 1995.
[Reference E169.1.C685 1995]
- Argues that changing conditions have redefined the American
dream away from economic prosperity to upward mobility.
- "Success" /
Susan Schulten. Encyclopedia of American cultural and intellectual history, v. 3 : p. 3-10,
Mary Kupiec Cayton and Peter W. Williams, editors. New York : Charles Scribner's Sons, c2001.
[Reference E169.1.E624 2001 OVSZ]
- Detailed history of how the philosophy of success has evolved
over time, ending with the modern concept of the American dream.
- "Success
and the Self-Made Man" / Hannu Salmi.
The Columbia Companion to American History on Film: How the Movies Have Portrayed the American Past,
p. 596-602, Peter C. Rollins, editor. New York : Columbia University Press, 2003.
[Reference PN1995.9.U64 C65 2003]
- Discusses the "myth of success" from Horatio Alger stories of the 19th century
through to its portrayal in films from the 1910s-1990s, including the role that
the media plays in it.
- Periodical Articles
- "Fantasy
politics: is it time to awaken from the American dream?" / Christopher Caldwell.
New York Times Magazine, p.19-20, Nov 7, 2010.
(Text
only link)
- "The
anxious society: middle-class insecurity and the crisis of the American dream" / Charles J. Whalen.
The Humanist, 56(5):18(2), Sept-Oct 1996.
- "Social
mobility and the American dream: what do college students believe?" / Deborah A. Abowitz.
College Student Journal, 39(4):716(13), Dec 2005.
- "F.
Scott Fitzgerald's evolving American dream: the 'pursuit of happiness' in Gatsby,
Tender is the Night, and The Last Tycoon" / John F. Callahan.
Twentieth Century Literature, 42(3):374(22), Fall 1996.
- "Film
noir and the American dream: the dark side of enlightenment" / Ken Hillis.
Velvet Light Trap, 55:3(16), Spring 2005.
- "Frank
Capra's 1920s immigrant trilogy: immigration, assimilation, and the American dream" /
Jonathan J. Cavallero.
Melus, 29(2):27(27), Summer 2004.
- "Scarface,
The Great Gatsby, and the American dream" / Marilyn Roberts.
Literature-Film Quarterly, 34(1):71(8), Jan 2006.
- "The
Sopranos and the American dream" / Maurice Yacowar.
Queen's Quarterly, 112(3):382(12), Fall 2005.
- Book Chapters
- "The American dream" /
Martin Luther King, Jr. A knock at midnight : inspiration from the great sermons of Reverend Martin Luther
King, Jr. /
edited by Clayborne Carson & Peter Holloran. New York : Intellectual Properties Management in association
with Warner Books, c1998.
[BV4241.5 .K56 1998]
- "The American dream : myth or reality" /
Stephen J. McNamee and Robert K. Miller, Jr. The meritocracy myth. Lanham, Md. : Rowman &
Littlefield, c2004.
[HN90.S65 M35 2004]
- "Arthur Miller's Death of a salesman and the American dream" /
William Heyen. Arthur Miller's Death of a salesman,
edited and with an introduction by Harold Bloom. New York : Chelsea House Publishers, 1988.
[PS3525.I5156 D433 1988]
- "Democratic education and the American dream" /
Jennifer Hochschild and Nathan Scovronick. Education for democracy : contexts, curricula, assessments,
edited by Walter C. Parker. Greenwich, Conn. : Information Age Pub., c2002.
[LC1091 .E3845 2002]
- "Diagnosing the American dream" /
M.W. Fishwick. American character and culture; some twentieth century perspectives,
edited by John A. Hague. [DeLand? Fla., 1964]
[E169.1 .H138]
- "The dying American dream and the snake oil of scapegoating" /
Holly Sklar. Eyes right! : challenging the right wing backlash, edited by Chip Berlet. Boston, Mass. :
South End Press, c1995.
[JC573.2.U6 E93 1995]
- "The end of the American dream" /
Robert Z. Lawrence. Single world, divided nations? : international trade and OECD labor markets,
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development. Development Centre [Washington, D.C.] :
Brookings Institution ; Paris : OECD Development Centre, c1996.
[HD5710.7 .L393 1996]
- "Is the American dream over?" /
Roger E. Meiners and Roger LeRoy Miller. Gridlock in government : how to break the stagnation of America.
Washington, D.C. : Free Congress Foundation, 1992.
[JK1140 .M45 1992]
- "Social mobility, free labor, and the American dream" /
Clayne Pope. Terms of labor : slavery, serfdom, and free labor,
edited by Stanley L. Engerman. Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, 1999.
[HD4861 .T47 1999]
- "The word 'American' ends in 'I can' : the ambiguous promise of the American dream" /
Jennifer L. Hochschild. Redefining equality, edited by Neal Devins & Davison M. Douglas.
New York : Oxford University Press, 1998.
[JC575 .R43 1998]
- Books - General
- The
American dream : a short history of an idea that shaped a nation /
Jim Cullen. Oxford [England] ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2003.
[E169.1 .C837 2003]
- The
American dream and the public schools /
Jennifer L. Hochschild and Nathan Scovronick. New York : Oxford University Press, 2003.
[LC89 .H63 2003]
- The
American dream in the information age / Otto Newman and Richard De Zoysa.
Basingstoke : Macmillan, 1999.
- The
American dream vs. the gospel of wealth : the fight for a productive middle-class economy /
Norton Garfinkle.
New Haven : Yale University Press, 2006.
- Beyond the American dream : lifelong learning and the search for meaning in a postmodern world /
Charles D. Hayes. Wasilla, AK : Autodidactic Press, c1998.
[LC32 .H385 1998]
- Brought
to you by : postwar television advertising and the American dream /
Lawrence R. Samuel.
Austin : University of Texas Press, 2001.
- Diners, bowling alleys and trailer parks : chasing the American dream in the postwar consumer culture /
Andrew Hurley. New York : Basic Books, c2001.
[HC110.C6 H87 2001]
- Financing
the American dream : a cultural history of consumer credit / Lendol Glen Calder.
Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, 1999.
- Inclusion
in the American dream : assets, poverty, and public policy /
Michael W. Sherraden, editor.
New York : Oxford University Press, 2005.
- James Truslow Adams: historian of the American dream /
Allan Nevins. Urbana : University of Illinois Press, 1968.
[E175.5.A25 N4]
- Lincoln and the economics of the American dream /
G. S. Boritt. [Memphis, Tenn.] : Memphis State University Press, c1978.
[E457.2 .B7]
- Looking for God in the suburbs : the religion of the American dream and its critics, 1945-1965 /
James Hudnut-Beumler. New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, c1994.
[BR526 .H83 1994]
- The
option of urbanism : investing in a new American dream /
Christopher B. Leinberger.
Washington, DC : Island Press, 2008.
- Owning
up : poverty, assets, and the American dream /
Michelle Miller-Adams.
Washington, DC : Brookings Institution Press, 2002.
- Poor
Richard's principle : recovering the American dream through the moral
dimension of work, business, and money / Robert Wuthnow.
Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, 1996.
[HN90.M6 W87 1996]
- The
Puritan gift : triumph, collapse and revival of an American dream /
Kenneth Hopper.
London : I. B. Tauris, 2007.
- Pursuing the American dream : opportunity and exclusion over four centuries /
Cal Jillson. Lawrence : University Press of Kansas, c2004.
[E183 .J55 2004]
- Reclaiming the American dream /
Richard C. Cornuelle. New York : Random House, [1965].
[HN65 .C65]
- Restoring the American dream /
Robert J. Ringer. [s.l.] : QED ; New York : distributed by Harper & Row, c1979.
[HC106.7 .R44]
- Restoring the American Dream : a working families' agenda for America /
Thomas A. Kochan. Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, c2005.
[HD4904.25 .K634 2005]
- Reviving the American dream : the economy, the states, and the federal government /
Alice Rivlin. Washington, D.C. : Brookings Institution, c1992.
[HJ3258.A2 R57 1992]
- Spreading the American dream : American economic and cultural expansion, 1890-1945 /
Emily S. Rosenberg ; Eric Foner, consulting editor. New York : Hill and Wang, 1982.
[E744 .R82 1982]
- The
success ethic, education, and the American dream / Joseph L. DeVitis and John Martin Rich
Albany : State University of New York Press, c1996.
- Unsung
heroines : single mothers and the American dream /
Ruth Sidel.
Berkeley : University of California Press, 2006.
- Books - Arts and Literature
- "American dream" /
Lynda G. Adamson. Thematic guide to the American novel, p. 21-27. Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 2002.
[Reference PS373 .A33 2002]
- Discusses the American dream and how it has been portrayed in literature with detailed looks at
The Great Gatsby, Ragtime, and The Rise of David Levinsky.
- American dream, American nightmare : fiction since 1960 /
Kathryn Hume. Urbana : University of Illinois Press, c2000.
[PS374.F24 H86 2000]
- The American dream and the popular novel /
Elizabeth Long. Boston : Routledge & K. Paul, c1985.
[PS374.B45 L65 1985]
- "Arthur Miller's Death of a salesman and the American dream" /
William Heyen. Arthur Miller's Death of a salesman,
edited and with an introduction by Harold Bloom. New York : Chelsea House Publishers, 1988.
[PS3525.I5156 D433 1988]
- F. Scott Fitzgerald and the American dream, /
William A. Fahey. New York : Crowell, [1973]
[PS3511.I9 Z616]
- From rags to riches; Horatio Alger, Jr. and the American dream /
John William Tebbel. New York : Macmillan, [c1963]
[PS1029.A3 Z85]
- The Frontier experience and the American dream : essays on American literature /
edited by David Mogen, Mark Busby, and Paul Bryant. College Station : Texas A&M University Press, c1989.
[PS169.F7 F76 1989]
- Mythmakers of the American dream : the nostalgic vision in popular culture /
Wiley Lee Umphlett. Lewisburg [Pa.] : Bucknell University Press ; New York : Cornwall Books, c1983.
[E169.1 .U52 1983 OVSZ]
- Psychological politics of the American dream : the commodification of subjectivity in twentieth-century American literature /
Lois Tyson. Columbus : Ohio State University Press, c1994.
[PS228.P6 T97 1994]
- Redefining the American dream : the novels of Willa Cather /
Sally Peltier Harvey. Rutherford, N.J. : Fairleigh Dickinson University ; London : Associated University Presses, c1995.
[PS3505.A87 Z66 1995]
- Books - End of the Dream
- The American dream : can it survive the 21st century? /
Joseph L. Daleiden. Amherst, N.Y. : Prometheus Books, 1999.
[HN50 .D33 1999]
- Awakening from the American dream : the social and political limits to growth /
Rufus E. Miles, Jr. New York : Universe Books, 1976.
[HN59 .M528]
- Bait and switch : the (futile) pursuit of the American dream /
Barbara Ehrenreich. New York : Metropolitan Books, 2005.
[HD5708.55.U6 E47 2005]
- The career mystique : cracks in the American dream /
Phyllis Moen and Patricia Roehling. Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, c2005.
[HD4904.25 .M638 2005]
- Crisis of the American dream; a history of American social thought, 1920-1940 /
compiled by John Tipple. New York, Pegasus [1968]
[HN64 .T56]
- Declining fortunes : the withering of the American dream /
Katherine S. Newman. New York : BasicBooks, c1993.
[HN90.S6 N47 1993]
- Defining America; a Christian critique of the American dream, /
Robert Benne and Philip Hefner. Philadelphia : Fortress Press, [1974]
[BR526 .B44]
- "The dying American dream and the snake oil of scapegoating" /
Holly Sklar. Eyes right! : challenging the right wing backlash, edited by Chip Berlet. Boston, Mass. :
South End Press, c1995.
[JC573.2.U6 E93 1995]
- "The end of the American dream" /
Robert Z. Lawrence. Single world, divided nations? : international trade and OECD labor markets,
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development. Development Centre [Washington, D.C.] :
Brookings Institution ; Paris : OECD Development Centre, c1996.
[HD5710.7 .L393 1996]
- The endangered American dream : how to stop the United States from becoming a Third World country and how to win the geo-economic struggle for industrial supremacy /
Edward N. Luttwak. New York : Simon & Schuster, c1993.
[HF1455 .L88 1993]
- The failures of integration : how race and class are undermining the American dream /
Sheryll Cashin. New York : Public Affairs, c2004.
[HN90.S6 C37 2004]
- The Great Divide : second thoughts on the American dream /
Studs Terkel. New York : Pantheon Books, c1988.
[E839 .T47 1988]
- Horatio Alger, farewell : the end of the American Dream /
Celeste MacLeod. New York : Seaview Books, c1980.
[HN90.S65 M32]
- Illusions of opportunity : the American dream in question /
John E. Schwarz. New York : W.W. Norton, c1997.
[HD8072.5 .S39 1997]
- "Is the American dream over?" /
Roger E. Meiners and Roger LeRoy Miller. Gridlock in government : how to break the stagnation of America.
Washington, D.C. : Free Congress Foundation, 1992.
[JK1140 .M45 1992]
- Looking for God in the suburbs : the religion of the American dream and its critics, 1945-1965 /
James Hudnut-Beumler. New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, c1994.
[BR526 .H83 1994]
- Plenty of nothing : the downsizing of the American dream and the case for structural Keynesianism /
Thomas I. Palley. Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, c1998.
[HC106.8 .P345 1998]
- The
Puritan gift : triumph, collapse and revival of an American dream /
Kenneth Hopper.
London : I. B. Tauris, 2007.
- Second-rate nation : from the American dream to the American myth /
Sam D. Sieber. Boulder, CO : Paradigm Publishers, c2005.
[HN60 .S54 2005]
- Tony Soprano's America : the criminal side of the American dream /
David R. Simon with Tamar Love. Boulder, Colo. : Westview Press, 2002.
[HN59.2 .S576 2002]
- Books - Ethnic Groups
- "American dream ideology" /
Sandra L. Barnes. Encyclopedia of racism in the United States, v. 1 : p. 21-22,
edited by Pyong Gap Min. Westport CT : Greenwood Press, 2005.
[Reference E184.A1E773 2005 v.1]
- Defines the American dream and discusses the attitudes behind it.
- The Black man and the American dream; Negro aspirations in America, 1900-1930 /
edited with an introduction by June Sochen. Chicago, Quadrangle Books, 1971.
[E185.5 .S65 1971]
- Bread and roses : mills, migrants, and the struggle for the American dream /
Bruce Watson. New York : Viking, c2005.
[HD5325.T4 1912 B73 2005]
- "The dying American dream and the snake oil of scapegoating" /
Holly Sklar. Eyes right! : challenging the right wing backlash, edited by Chip Berlet. Boston, Mass. :
South End Press, c1995.
[JC573.2.U6 E93 1995]
- Facing
up to the American dream : race, class, and the soul of the nation /
Jennifer L. Hochschild. Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, c1995.
[E185.615 .H55 1995]
- The failures of integration : how race and class are undermining the American dream /
Sheryll Cashin. New York : Public Affairs, c2004.
[HN90.S6 C37 2004]
- Inventing
Great Neck : Jewish identity and the American dream /
Judith S. Goldstein.
New Brunswick, NJ : Rutgers University Press, 2006.
- Nativism
and immigration : regulating the American dream /
Brian N. Fry.
New York : LFB Scholarly Pub., 2007.
- New converts to the American dream? Mobility aspirations of young Mexican Americans, /
Celia S. Heller. New Haven, Conn., College & University Press [c1971]
[E184.M5 H38]
- Pursuing the American dream : white ethnics and the new populism /
Richard Krickus. Bloomington : Indiana University Press, 1976.
[E184.A1 K79 1976b]
- Remembering the American dream : Hispanic immigration and national policy /
Roberto Suro. Twentieth Century Fund New York : Twentieth Century Fund Press, 1994.
[E184.S75 S85 1994]
- The unbridgeable gap; Blacks and their quest for the American dream, 1900-1930 /
June Sochen. Chicago : Rand McNally, [1972]
[E185.61 .S662]
Robert Delaney, 8/2/2012
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