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  • According to James Truslow Adams, “The great use of life is to spend it on something that will outlast it.”

    In Memoriam 2010

  • Historian James Truslow Adams defined the American Dream as going beyond material wealth to encompass a "social order in which each man and each woman shall be able to attain to the fullest stature of which they are innately capable... regardless of the fortuitous circumstances of birth or position."

    Scott Stringer: Beyond the Protests: An American Story Scott Stringer 2011

  • The term "American dream" was coined in 1931 by James Truslow Adams in his history The Epic of America.

    Michael Ford: Five Myths About the American Dream Michael Ford 2012

  • Historian James Truslow Adams defined the American Dream as going beyond material wealth to encompass a "social order in which each man and each woman shall be able to attain to the fullest stature of which they are innately capable... regardless of the fortuitous circumstances of birth or position."

    Scott Stringer: Beyond the Protests: An American Story Scott Stringer 2011

  • Peggy Noonan's " From Disraeli to 'the Bang-Bang '" Declarations, April 2 on the way television is driving American foreign policy reminded me of a surprising liability of the earliest electronic communication medium—the telegraph, as noted in 1930 by James Truslow Adams.

    Instant Communication Can Have Bad Consequences 2011

  • Historian James Truslow Adams defined the American Dream as going beyond material wealth to encompass a "social order in which each man and each woman shall be able to attain to the fullest stature of which they are innately capable... regardless of the fortuitous circumstances of birth or position."

    Scott Stringer: Beyond the Protests: An American Story Scott Stringer 2011

  • The term "American dream" was coined in 1931 by James Truslow Adams in his history The Epic of America.

    Michael Ford: Five Myths About the American Dream Michael Ford 2012

  • The term "American dream" was coined in 1931 by James Truslow Adams in his history The Epic of America.

    Michael Ford: Five Myths About the American Dream Michael Ford 2012

  • The historian James Truslow Adams described the idea of the "American Dream" as a land in which life should be better, richer and fuller for every man and woman, with opportunity for each according to ability or achievement.

    Ruben Diaz Jr.: Why New York City Needs a "Living Wage" Law Ruben Diaz Jr. 2011

  • In 1931, when writer James Truslow Adams coined the term “the American Dream,” it had more to do with idealism than material prosperity.

    In Search of the American Dream 2007

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