Title: James Truslow Adams - Wikipedia
Headings: James Truslow Adams
James Truslow Adams
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Early life
Writer
American Dream
Two educations
Death
Honors
Bibliography
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Content: Adams was the editor, with Roy V. Coleman as managing editor, of The Atlas of American History (New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1943), and The Album of American History, 4 vols. ( New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1944). American Dream
Adams coined the term " American Dream " in his 1931 book The Epic of America. His American Dream is "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. It is a difficult dream for the European upper classes to interpret adequately, and too many of us ourselves have grown weary and mistrustful of it. It is not a dream of motor cars and high wages merely, but a dream of social order in which each man and each woman shall be able to attain to the fullest stature of which they are innately capable, and be recognized by others for what they are, regardless of the fortuitous circumstances of birth or position." However, Adams felt the American Dream was in peril during the 1920s and 30s. He complained that "money making and material improvements . . .