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6 unusual facts about American Dream


Cady Noland

Cady Noland (born 1956 in Washington, DC.) is a postmodern conceptual sculptor and an internationally exhibited installation artist, whose work deals with the failed promise of the American Dream and the divide between fame and anonymity, among other themes.

Cuggiono

Many Italians, especially from Cuggiono, emigrated to Southern Illinois to work in the coal mines with hopes of the American Dream in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

Honey in the Horn

It is about the coming of age of an orphan boy named Clay Calvert, but it is also the about the trials of the pioneers who came to Oregon following the American Dream.

Molly McGrann

Her first novel, 360 Flip, looked at the tensions lying below the surface of the "American Dream" in a 60s Levittown-style suburb, through the eyes of a disillusioned young poet growing up there in the 1950s.

Stranger With A Camera

Scottish Canadian documentary filmmaker O'Connor had been hired to direct a film about the "American Dream" titled US.

The Life of Reason

The American Dream and the dream of "laissez-faire industrialism" is a lie, and is responsible for the endless struggles of modern man.


E. Digby Baltzell

He dedicated one of his books to "all my undergraduate friends at the University of Pennsylvania, many of them grandsons of immigrants to the urban frontier, who, in spite of their possessing too many Jaguars and mink-coated mothers, have constantly been renewed by faith in the American Dream of unlimited opportunity".


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1987 Metro Manila Film Festival

Olongapo...The Great American Dream was adjudged Best Picture in the 1987 Metro Manila Film Festival.

1993–94 Michigan Wolverines men's basketball team

In November 2003, Mitch Albom released his book Fab five: basketball, trash talk, the American dream chronicling the recruiting of and first two years of play of the Fab Five.

Belle Adler

Belle Adler specialized in documentary productions and is credited with producing Murder for Hire for the Discovery Channel; American Dream, American Nightmare for A&E's Investigative Reports, narrated by Bill Kurtis; Operation Animal Shield for Animal Planet and Discovery International, and was research director for Drugs on Public Lands, an A&E production.

Billionaire Boys Club

Hunt was the basis for Philip Swann, a character in the Law & Order Season 4 episode "American Dream," which was subsequently adapted into the Law & Order: UK episode, "Unsafe".

Bohumil Makovsky

Bohumil Makovsky represented a fulfillment of the "American Dream." He was born on September 23, 1878 in Františky, Bohemia to a Czech speaking family of Vaclav and Anna Hladik Makovsky.

Eat a Bowl of Tea

#Chua, Cheng Lok; "Golden Mountain: Chinese Versions of the American Dream in Lin Yutang, Louis Chu, and Maxine Hong Kingston" Ethnic Groups 1982; 4 (1-2): 33-59.

Everything Is Shifting

"Good Luck with that American Dream" has been licensed for an international Coca-Cola ad.

Frank Bowe

"SSDI and SSI ... the rapid escalation of costs and the narrowing of employer health insurance coverage ... and other factors ... keep the American Dream out of reach for many Americans with disabilities." ("Disability in America," 2006)

Future of American Democracy Foundation

Norton Garfinkle, The American Dream vs. The Gospel of Wealth: The Fight for a Productive Middle-Class Economy

I Knew the Bride

Hunter S. Thompson's Songs of the Doomed: More Notes on the Death of the American Dream, a 1990 anthology of essays and works of new journalism, has a chapter named after the song.

Johnny Weaver

He made a brief in-ring return in the Fall of 1987 in the corner of the "American Dream" Dusty Rhodes who was using sleeper hold, calling it the "Weaver Lock," and chasing down Lex Luger and the N.W.A. United States Title.

Liberty State Park

In 2000, Andrea Bocelli gave a concert at the park, broadcast on PBS, as American Dream - the Statue of Liberty concert.

Pete Gray

The 1986 television-movie A Winner Never Quits, starring Keith Carradine and Mare Winningham; and the publication of Gray's biography, One-Armed Wonder: Pete Gray, Wartime Baseball, and the American Dream written by William C. Kashatus, published in 1995 by McFarland & Company, renewed public interest in Gray.

Tatum Reed

Reed and her pornography career were also the central focus of the James Hanlon documentary Popwhore: A New American Dream.

The Death of Bessie Smith

It premiered Off-Broadway at the York Playhouse on March 1, 1961, in a double bill with Albee's The American Dream. Directed by Lawrence Arrick, the "Nurse" was played by Rae Allen and Ben Piazza played "The Young Man".

The European Dream

"The European Dream: The New Europe has its own Cultural Vision—and it may be Better Than Ours", an article on page seventy-six of the September, 2004 – October, 2004 issue of Utne, copied from the book The European Dream: How Europe's Vision of the Future Is Quietly Eclipsing the American Dream by Jeremy Rifkin

The European Dream: How Europe's Vision of the Future Is Quietly Eclipsing the American Dream is a book, by Jeremy Rifkin published in September 2004.