TY - BOOK AU - Delbanco,Andrew TI - The Real American Dream: A Meditation on Hope T2 - The William E. Massey Sr. Lectures in the History of American Civilization Series SN - 9780674034167 AV - E169 U1 - 973/.01 PY - 1999/// CY - Cambridge PB - Harvard University Press KW - National characteristics, American KW - Melancholy-Social aspects-United States-History KW - Puritans KW - Nationalism-United States-History KW - Self-Social aspects-United States-History-20th century KW - United States-Civilization-Philosophy KW - Electronic books N1 - Intro -- CONTENTS -- Prologue -- 1. GOD -- 2. NATION -- 3. SELF -- Notes -- Index N2 - 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 UR - https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/orpp/detail.action?docID=3300504 ER -