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PART THREE: Photographs by George Alexander Grant of National Monuments and Parks in the American Southwest.(Bibliography) Journal of the Southwest (6/22/2000)
...Grant negative Mesa Verde 42, taken 14 August 1929.) (*) indicates references used by Lee 1970 References Adams, James Truslow 1934 Francis Parkman. In Dictionary of American Biography, Vol. 14, edited by Dumas Malone, pp. 247-50...

The American Dream's death spiral.(Economics)(Column) USA TODAY (11/1/2010)
...uttered it. Actually, it was James Truslow Adams, a prominent historian, who popularized...it is so uniquely American." Adams' purpose was not to exhibit chauvinistic...citizens of every rank." For Adams, the American Dream ideal was...

The evolution of the American dream.(OPINION) The Christian Science Monitor (9/29/2008)
...dream? Very nearly so. It was James Truslow Adams, a Pulitzer Prize-winning historian...The American Epic," Mr. Adams not only described the phenomenon...such a situation has evolved. Adams's words, published in 1931...

THE AMERICAN DREAM COME TRUE GIVES HOPE TO ALL.(Features) Seattle Post-Intelligencer (1/10/2009)
...of the term "American dream" as coined by historian James Truslow Adams: "...a dream of social order in which each man...fortuitous circumstances of birth or position." What Adams saw then, and what's still true now, is that the...

School confers 688 degrees\ Post-Tribune (IN) (5/21/2007)
...jobs wearing suits, but I won't." Calling to mind James Truslow Adams, Jischke talked at length about the American Dream, which Adams coined in 1931 during the Great Depression. As the...

We all know why people come ... The Washington Post (1/26/2003)
...appears to have originated with the American historian James Truslow Adams, who invoked it repeatedly in his 1931 volume The Epic...the national consciousness. But as to its meaning, Adams offered only the vaguest of definitions, describing...

5 Myths about the American dream The Washington Post (1/9/2012)
...The term "American dream" was coined in 1931 by James Truslow Adams in his history "The Epic of America." In the midst of the Great Depression, Adams discovered the same counterintuitive optimism that we...

RARE BOOK LIBRARY OPENS UP TO PUBLIC The Boston Globe (Boston, MA) (10/22/1987)
...Those members have included 12 US presidents, from John Adams to Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Member William Howard...Morison are among her predecessors. Morison, along with James Truslow Adams and Bruce Catton, are among 45 winners of Pulitzer...

DIGGING UP HISTORY HARDING NEW SUBJECT OF AUTOPSY DEBATE.(Main) Albany Times Union (Albany, NY) (7/14/1991)
...noted that Pulitzer Prize winning American historian James Truslow Adams wrote in "The March of Democracy" that "without accepting...factors, including the type and amount of poison. James David Barber, a political science professor at Duke...

The shaping of the Lerner legend; THE RANDY LERNER STORY In the first in a series looking at the life of the man who has taken control of As ton Villa, chief sports writer Hyder Jawad looks at how Randy Lerner's family fled the Russian Empire and his father found fortune and fame in the US.(Features) The Birmingham Post (England) (9/9/2006)
...Majestic to Ellis Island. Nobody had yet coined the phrase "The American Dream" - that came in 1931 from the writer James Truslow Adams - but in the 1920s there was something exceptional about the United States. This exceptionalism was enough to attract...

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