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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
Contents
FROM TIME IMMEMORIAL | 3 |
THE MEN OF DESTINY | 25 |
A CIVILIZATION ESTABLISHED | 51 |
Copyright | |
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Bibliographic information
| Title | The Epic of America |
| Author | James Truslow Adams |
| Publisher | Blue Ribbon Books, 1931 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 25 Jan 2007 |
| Length | 433 pages |
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