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Dream on / [directed and produced by] Roger Weisberg.
- Format:
- Video
- Series:
- Academic Video Online
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- American Dream.
- Poverty--United States.
- Poverty.
- Income--United States.
- Income.
- United States.
- United States--Economic conditions.
- Genre:
- Documentary films.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (101 minutes)
- Place of Publication:
- Palisades, NY : Public Policy Productions, 2015.
- Language Note:
- In English.
- Original language in English.
- System Details:
- data file
- Summary:
- Dream On investigates the perilous state of the American Dream after decades of rising income equality and declining economic mobility. In an epic road trip, political comedian John Fugelsang retraces the journey of Alexis de Tocqueville, whose study of our young country in 1831 came to define America as a place where anyone, of any background, could climb the ladder of economic opportunity. Following in the Frenchman's footsteps, Fugelsang asks whether the optimistic spirit of the American Dream that Tocqueville popularized is alive and well in the twenty-first century, or whether George Carlin was right when he famously quipped, "It's called the American Dream because you have to be asleep to believe it."
- Notes:
- Title from resource description page (viewed November 19, 2015).
- OCLC:
- 934522862
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