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World Service,02 Dec 1993,27 mins

The American Dream

Making America

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American historians give Christopher Cook their accounts of vital moments in the making of the United States. Episode seven: the pursuit of the American dream. "That dream was wrapped up in ideas of property, home ownership, job security, and that each generation would exceed the fortunes of the previous generation." Katherine Newman, social anthropologist.

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