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  2. Sep 3, 2024 · While the idea of the American Dream may have originated well before 1776, the phrase itself was coined by American businessman and historian James Truslow Adams in his 1931 book The Epic of America. That work defines the past and future of the American Dream, which, according to Adams, is:

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  3. Historically, the Dream originated in colonial mystique regarding frontier life. As John Murray, 4th Earl of Dunmore, the colonial Governor of Virginia, noted in 1774, the Americans "for ever imagine the Lands further off are still better than those upon which they are already settled".

  4. The original “American Dream” was not a dream of individual wealth; it was a dream of equality, justice and democracy for the nation.

  5. It was in that creed that the phrase the American dream was first used to articulate — not in 1931, when it was popularized, but when it first appeared in American political discourse, at the turn of the 20 th century.

  6. May 9, 2022 · Origin of the American Dream. Photograph of Benito Mussolini, via Library of Congress. Before it was a dream of wealth, the American Dream was an ethos. The guiding belief that the nation should be founded on equality, justice, and democracy defined the phrase for generations up until the mid-20th century.

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  7. Mar 28, 2018 · Coined by James Truslow Adams in his history The Epic of America, the phrase originally referred to a “dream of a land in which life should be better and richer and fuller for every man,...

  8. May 22, 2019 · The phrase “American Dream” was originally coined in the wake of the Great Depression by historian James Truslow Adams, when he wrote a book titled The Epic of America. (He originally called it The American Dream, but his publishers didn’t think the title catchy enough.)