What We Mean by the American Dream by Doron Taussig HARDBACK 9781501754685

What We Mean by the American Dream\nby Doron Taussig\nHardback\nEnglish\n\nBrand new copy from BookCurl \u2013 the UK independent online bookseller.\n\n------------------------------\nBook details\n------------------------------\nAuthor: Doron Taussig\nTitle: What We Mean by the American Dream\nFormat: Hardback\nLanguage: English\nTopic: Social classes\nPublisher: Cornell University Press\nPublication year: 2021\nISBN-13: 9781501754685\nISBN-10: 1501754688\n\n------------------------------\nDescription\n------------------------------\n\nDoron Taussig invites us to question the American Dream. Did you earn what you have? Did everyone else?\nThe American Dream is built on the idea that Americans end up roughly where we deserve to be in our working lives based on our efforts and abilities; in other words, the United States is supposed to be a meritocracy. When Americans think and talk about our lives, we grapple with this idea, asking how a person got to where he or she is and whether h.