American Dreams - American Nightmares

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Schöning, 1981. — 128 p.A Modern Business Success Story.Of Thee I Sing.1917 poster: First Thrill of Liberty.Reciting the Pledge of Allegiance.Poem on the base of the Statue of LibertyWaking from the American Dream.Cartoon: Is this the great American Dream?Cartoon: It's closing in on us.The Epic of America.The New Yorker: Success City.Steel mills: the hideous grandeur.American housing.The Air-Conditioned Nightmare.Sitting Bull in Ford.Cartoons: Consumer Society.Cartoon: The automobile.Letters Home to Norway.The Emigrant's Letter.A Kansas family in the 1880s.Only in America.America Becomes the Common Man’s Utopia.German immigrants boarding a ship, 1874.Advice to prospective immigrants, 1869.Apostle of Prosperity.Goethe Quotation.The Immigrant.A change in attitude: two lithographsJohn Steinbeck: The Grapes of Wrath.Oklahoma farmer and sons in a dust storm, 1936.Cesar Chavez.Two families on their way to California, 1936.Cesar Chavez leading workers in a strike.The Day of the Locust.Railroad posters.Langston Hughes: America.Black children.Martin Luther King: I Have a Dream.Martin Luther King at the Lincoln Memorial.Black Protest March.The New Immigrants.Haitian refugee embracing American soil, 1979.The Teeming Shores.Advertisement: Think twice.John Dos Passos: Tin Lizzie.Family picnicking in front of their Model T.Production line: Efficiency was the word.After the battle between guards and union.The Blue-Collar Blues.Modern Ford production line.Theodore Dreiser: The Financier.Cartoon: Rich Man Poor Man.Enterprise: A Neglected Freedom.Advertisement: Conoco Oil Company.Donna Cord: Diary of a Mad Housewife.Cartoon: Family Income.Richard Cory.Ted Straight, Man on the Way Up.Henry David Thoreau: Walden.Alternative Living.The Significance of the Frontier in American History.Settlers on their was across the plains.Manifest Destiny.The Anglo-Saxon and the World’s Future.Caricature of President Theodore Roosevelt.John F. Kennedy: The New Frontier.Letter from a Peace Corps Volunteer.A Peace Corps Volunteer helping to build a road.Policemen beating and dragging away Negro demonstrators.Men Walk On Moon.Jimmy Carter: Inaugural Address.President Carter delivering his Inaugural Address.Ronald Reagan: Inaugural Address.President Reagan delivering his Inaugural Address.Hunter S. Thompson: Breakdown on Paradise Blvd.Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas.Something’s Happening Out There.An anti-litter flag.Time is Running Out.Cartoon: You want a high standard of living.America - Myths and Dreams.