• THIS OLD GAME •
Jun 06, 2019
3 minutes
BY JONATHAN SCHMALZBACH
THE AMERICAN DREAM GAME
Historian James Truslow Adams minted the term “American Dream” in his 1931 best-selling book, The Epic of America. For Adams, the dream was not necessarily about material wealth, but rather the opportunity for all Americans to live “richer and fuller” lives.
That’s not how many came to interpret the American Dream. For some, it is a relentless accrual of Mammon accompanied by a lifestyle of Pharaonic splendor. In keeping with this, Milton Bradley’s 1979
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