"This is the creation story of a modern-day Iowa family. It's also the creation story of America itself. This dynastic chronicle begins in seventeenth-centry England. Desperate for a better life, George Hull joins with dozens of other families to sail across the Atlantic. After much tribulation, they land safely on North American shores -- but they know their true journey has only just begun. Starting out as a mission to escape persecution and become landowners, with the passage of time -- through hardships, injustice, and war -- their quest morphs into a contemporary urban struggle for workers' rights. And the pursuit continues -- with no limit on where new generations might take it. Part history, part biography, and part memoir, 'Birth of the American dream' is about the hopes of a family, the birth of a natoin, and the incontrovertible rise of a spirit that even today shows no signs of slowing down." from the back cover.
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