The Epic of America: By James Truslow Adams |
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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
PREFACE vii | 3 |
THE RETURN OF QUETZALCOATL | 17 |
THE MEN OF DESTINY | 25 |
Copyright | |
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Bibliographic information
| Title | The Epic of America: By James Truslow Adams An Atlantic Monthly Press Book |
| Author | James Truslow Adams |
| Edition | revised |
| Publisher | Little, Brown, 1933 |
| Original from | the University of California |
| Digitized | 19 Oct 2007 |
| Length | 446 pages |
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