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  1. Happiness for all?
    unequal hopes and lives in pursuit of the American dream
    Published: [2017]
    Publisher:  Princeton University Press, Princeton

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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    Format: Print
    ISBN: 9780691169460; 0691169462
    RVK Categories: MS 1235
    Subjects: USA; Armut; Soziale Ungleichheit; Soziale Mobilität; American dream;
    Other subjects: Social mobility / United States; Social classes / United States; Equality / United States; American Dream; United States / Social conditions; United States / Economic conditions
    Scope: xv, 192 Seiten, Diagramme, Karten, 25 cm
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    Enthält Literaturverzeichnis auf Seite [173]-185

  2. Happiness for all?
    unequal hopes and lives in pursuit of the American dream
    Published: [2017]
    Publisher:  Princeton University Press, Princeton

    Universitätsbibliothek Bamberg
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  3. Celebrity culture and the American dream
    stardom and social mobility
    Published: 2011
    Publisher:  Routledge, New York [u.a.]

    Universitätsbibliothek Augsburg
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    Universitätsbibliothek Erlangen-Nürnberg, Hauptbibliothek
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    Bayerische Staatsbibliothek
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    Stiftung Bayerisches Amerikahaus gGmbH, Information und Recherche, Bibliothek
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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    ISBN: 9780415886789; 9780415886796
    RVK Categories: NK 5190
    Edition: 1. publ.
    Subjects: Social mobility / United States; Social classes / United States; Celebrities / United States; American Dream; Fame / Social aspects / United States; Gesellschaft; Berühmte Persönlichkeit; American dream
    Scope: XVI, 282 S., Ill., 24 cm
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    The American dream : celebrity, class, and social mobility -- Beyond subsistence : the rise of the middle class in the twentieth century -- Prosperity and wealth arrive : boom times and women's suffrage in the 1920s -- Pull yourself up by your bootstraps : personal failure and the Great Depression -- We're all in this together : collectivism and World War II -- Suburban utopia : the postwar middle class fantasy -- Is that all there is? : challenging the suburban fantasy in the sixties and seventies -- Massive wealth as moral reward : the reagan revolution and individualism -- Success just for being you : opportunity in the internet age

    Includes bibliographical references (p. 273-274) and index

  4. The American dream is not dead
    but populism could kill it
    Published: [2020]
    Publisher:  Templeton Press, West Conshohocken, PA

    Populists on both sides of the political aisle routinely announce that the American Dream is dead. According to them, the game has been rigged by elites, workers can&;t get ahead, wages have been stagnant for decades, and the middle class is dying.... more

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    Populists on both sides of the political aisle routinely announce that the American Dream is dead. According to them, the game has been rigged by elites, workers can&;t get ahead, wages have been stagnant for decades, and the middle class is dying. Populists on both sides of the political aisle routinely announce that the American Dream is dead. According to them, the game has been rigged by elites, workers can&;t get ahead, wages have been stagnant for decades, and the middle class is dying. Michael R. Strain, director of economic policy studies at the American Enterprise Institute, disputes this rhetoric as both wrong and dangerous. In this succinctly argued volume, he shows that, on measures of economic opportunity and quality of life, there has never been a better time to be alive in America. He backs his argument with overwhelming&;and underreported&;data to show how the facts favor realistic optimism

     

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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    ISBN: 9781599475578
    Subjects: Soziale Situation; American dream; Wirtschaftliche Lage
    Other subjects: Social mobility / United States; American Dream; United States / Economic conditions / 21st century; American Dream; Economic history; Social mobility; United States; 2000-2099
    Scope: viii, 152 Seiten, Diagramme, 1 Porträt, 18 cm
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    The American dream is not dead -- Dissenting points of view

  5. Celebrity culture and the American dream
    stardom and social mobility
    Published: 2011
    Publisher:  Routledge, New York [u.a.]

    Freie Universität Berlin, Universitätsbibliothek
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    Stadtbibliothek Falkensee
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    Source: Philologische Bibliothek, FU Berlin
    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    ISBN: 9780415886789; 9780415886796
    RVK Categories: NK 5190
    Edition: 1. publ.
    Subjects: Social mobility / United States; Social classes / United States; Celebrities / United States; American Dream; Fame / Social aspects / United States; Gesellschaft; Berühmte Persönlichkeit; American dream
    Scope: XVI, 282 S., Ill., 24 cm
    Notes:

    The American dream : celebrity, class, and social mobility -- Beyond subsistence : the rise of the middle class in the twentieth century -- Prosperity and wealth arrive : boom times and women's suffrage in the 1920s -- Pull yourself up by your bootstraps : personal failure and the Great Depression -- We're all in this together : collectivism and World War II -- Suburban utopia : the postwar middle class fantasy -- Is that all there is? : challenging the suburban fantasy in the sixties and seventies -- Massive wealth as moral reward : the reagan revolution and individualism -- Success just for being you : opportunity in the internet age

    Includes bibliographical references (p. 273-274) and index