Thoughts on the American Dream and Its Future
Date
2000-04-01
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Publisher
Oakland University
Abstract
The American Dream is an “ideograph”—a master symbol that fuses ideology and rhetoric and that, in the hands of authorities, mobilizes collective action, sentiment, and motive.
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Symbolism, American history
Citation
Maines, David R. "Thoughts on the American Dream and Its Future" Oakland Journal 1 (2000). 88-95