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#91 Heather Cox Richardson (replay): Rewriting the Politics of the American Dream

What Could Possibly Go Right?

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The American Dream Has Been Host by a Narrative

The American dream in the early Republic was the idea that that any man could rise. After the Civil War that American dream moves west and becomes the idea of the cowboy who can work his way up just through hard work. For the 21st century, I don't think that works any longer.

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