The Real American Dream - A Meditation on Hope

In The Real American Dream literary scholar Andrew Delbanco shows how Americans have organized their days and ordered their lives-and ultimately created a culture-to make sense of the pain, desire, pleasure, and fear that are the stuff of human experience.

Summary

In The Real American Dream literary scholar Andrew Delbanco shows how Americans have organized their days and ordered their lives—and ultimately created a culture—to make sense of the pain, desire, pleasure, and fear that are the stuff of human experience.

Product details

• Authors: Andrew Delbanco
• Publisher: University Presses
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.09.2000
• EAN: 9780674003835
• ISBN: 978-0-674-00383-5
• Dimensions: 130 mm x 191 mm x 13 mm
• Weight: 159 g
• Series: The William E. Massey Sr. Lectures in the History of American Civilization; William E. Massey Sr. Lectures; The William E. Massey Sr. Lectures in American Studies; The William E. Massey Sr. Lectures in American Studies; William E. Massey Sr. Lectures
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; History, HISTORY / Social History, HISTORY / United States / General, Social and cultural history, United States of America, USA, History of the Americas, Religion and beliefs