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User Review - JamesBeach - LibraryThingMr. Adams, apparently, coined the phrase "the American Dream," and his 1931 text is the first place the now hackneyed phrase appears in print as a freighted concept implying security, safety, healthy ... Read full review
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| Title | The Epic of America |
| Author | James Truslow Adams |
| Edition | 2, illustrated, reprint, revised |
| Publisher | Greenwood Press, 1931 |
| ISBN | 0313223777, 9780313223778 |
| Length | 446 pages |
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