The Epic of America

He won a Pulitzer Prize for History of New England. And later he wrote a book called The Epic of America.

Even though it was written during the Great Depression, Adams took a fundamentally bullish view of the United States. His book was hugely popular and as best as we can tell, it introduced the phrase the American Dream.

Adams defined this as, that dream of a land in which life should be better and richer and fuller for everyone with opportunity for each according to ability or achievement.

That was a term coined, you write by author James Truslow Adams, 1931 book, The Epic of America.

The dream has not been a dream of material plenty, though that has doubtlessly counted heavily. It has been a dream of being able to grow to fullest development as a man and a woman, unhampered by the barriers which had slowly been erected in the older civilizations, unrepressed by social orders which had developed for the benefit of classes rather than for the simple human being of any and every class.

The dream has not been a dream of material plenty, though that has doubtlessly counted heavily. It has been a dream of being able to grow to fullest development as a man and a woman, unhampered by the barriers which had slowly been erected in the older civilizations, unrepressed by social orders which had developed for the benefit of classes rather than for the simple human being of any and every class.

the dream of a land in which life should be better and richer and fuller for everyone with opportunity for each according to ability or achievement

the dream of a land in which life should be better and richer and fuller for everyone with opportunity for each according to ability or achievement

the dream of a land in which life should be better and richer and fuller for everyone with opportunity for each according to ability or achievement.