Maines, David R.Brieger, Gottfried2020-05-012020-05-012000-04-01Maines, David R. "Thoughts on the American Dream and Its Future" Oakland Journal 1 (2000). 88-951529-4005http://hdl.handle.net/10323/7515The 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.en-USCopyright held by Oakland UniversitySymbolismAmerican historyArticle