musings on American dreams

A commentor in another thread on healthcare remarked on people being "in favor of people becoming as rich as their talent and hard work will take them"

And it made me think--when did this happen?( Read more... )

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As much as I carp about it, one thing I do appreciate about AMU/APUS is that it allows me online access to a number of incredibly useful collections, like Janes, JSTOR, Lexis-Nexis, and portions of Ebscso and Proquest. Worth their weight in gold, those are.

ETA: ...and ABC-Clio (US military history), Praeger (international security), and CIAO (international relations).