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05430aam a2200565 i 4500 001 A1950686E9E711E69A6025A3DAD10320 003 SILO 005 20170203020341 008 160912s2016 ksu b 001 0 eng 010 $a 2016026154 020 $a 0700623108 020 $a 9780700623105 020 $a 0700623094 020 $a 9780700623099 035 $a (OCoLC)947148991 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d YDXCP $d BTCTA $d BDX $d OCLCO $d OCLCF $d WEA $d YDX $d YDX $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a n-us--- 050 00 $a HN57 $b .J55 2016 082 00 $a 305.5/130973 $2 23 084 $a POL007000 $a LIT004020 $a POL007000 $2 bisacsh 100 1 $a Jillson, Calvin C., $d 1949- $e author. 245 14 $a The American dream : $b in history, politics, and fiction / $c Cal Jillson. 264 1 $a Lawrence, Kansas : $b University Press of Kansas, $c [2016] 300 $a xv, 350 pages ; $c 23 cm. 490 1 $a American political thought 520 $a "Life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness: these words have long represented the promise of America, a "shimmering vision of a fruitful country open to all who come, learn, work, save, invest, and play by the rules." In 2004, Cal Jillson took stock of this vision and showed how the nation's politicians deployed the American Dream, both in campaigns and governance, to hold the American people to their program. "Full of startling ideas that make sense," NPR's senior correspondent Juan Williams remarked, Jillson's book offered the fullest exploration yet of the origins and evolution of the ideal that serves as the foundation of our national ethos and collective self-image. Nonetheless, in the dozen years since Pursuing the American Dream was published, the American Dream has fared poorly. The decline of social mobility and the rise of income inequality--to say nothing of the extraordinary social, political, and economic developments of the Bush and Obama presidencies--have convinced many that the American Dream is no more. This is the concern that Jillson addresses in his new book, The American Dream: In History, Politics, and Fiction, which juxtaposes the claims of political, social, and economic elite against the view of American life consistently offered in our national literature. Our great novelists, from Nathaniel Hawthorne and Herman Melville to John Updike, Philip Roth, Toni Morrison, and beyond highlight the limits and challenges of life--the difficulty if not impossibility of the dream--especially for racial, ethnic, and religious minorities as well as women. His book takes us through the changing meaning and reality of the American Dream, from the seventeenth century to the present day, revealing a distinct, sustained separation between literary and political elite. The American Dream, Jillson suggests, took shape early in our national experience and defined the nation throughout its growth and development, yet it has always been challenged, even rejected, in our most celebrated literature. This is no different in our day, when what we believe about the American Dream reveals as much about its limits as its possibilities. "-- $c Provided by publisher. 520 $a "Cal Jillson discusses the importance and changing meaning of the American Dream in our politics and culture. He uses political, social science, and literary texts to better understand what the American Dream has meant and what its limitations have been. It extends the discussion through the presidency of Barack Obama as well as the work of authors like Jonathan Franzen and economist Thomas Piketty. The author contends that while politicians are willing to speak freely about the American Dream, through literature we better understand the limitations of this dream for most Americans"-- $c Provided by publisher. 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 505 00 $t American dreams and doubt in the Twenty-First Century. $t The promise and peril of life in the New World -- $t The founders' dream and its limits -- $t Democracy and melancholy: the visions and fears of Emerson, Melville, and Lincoln -- $t Individualism and combination in the Age of the Robber Barons -- $t The dream in prosperity and depression -- $t The dream unmoored: the rise of entitlement from Truman to LBJ -- $t The dream in doubt: opportunity to uncertainty from Reagan to Obama -- $t American dreams and doubt in the Twenty-First Century. 650 0 $a American Dream. 650 0 $a American Dream in literature. 650 0 $a Social mobility $z United States $x History. 650 0 $a Social mobility in literature. 650 7 $a HISTORY / United States / General. $2 bisacsh 650 7 $a LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General. $2 bisacsh 650 7 $a POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Ideologies / Democracy. $2 bisacsh 650 7 $a American Dream. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01738531 650 7 $a American Dream in literature. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01902351 650 7 $a Social mobility. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01122648 650 7 $a Social mobility in literature. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01122655 651 7 $a United States. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01204155 655 7 $a History. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01411628 830 0 $a American political thought. 941 $a 3 952 $l PNAX964 $d 20180118010236.0 952 $l UQAX771 $d 20170722010750.0 952 $l USUX851 $d 20170203032107.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=A1950686E9E711E69A6025A3DAD10320 994 $a 92 $b IWAInitiate Another SILO Locator Search