Any good books about the American dream?

>>8286413
mason and dixon

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>>8286413

>>8286413
American Pastoral by Roth

the great gatsbo

t. high school english teacher

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas is the best one there is: it's a holographic eulogy delivered by a postmodern Knight of Faith in a Borgesian desert littered with the rotting fragments of the Great American Map - a voice rises garrulous and unheard, asking the shadows "Have you seen the Dream, its rotting corpse? Have you looked upon its face you necrophiliac maggots, have you ever stopped gnawing and feasting on these old lumps of flesh?". A raving prophet taking refuge in the crowded loneliness of drug hysteria,gathering the courage necessary to follow the ancient adage hastily scrawled in dreamdust across the sky - "you can be everything you want, if you're born in the U.S.A." - and yes that means be a fiend, a lunatic, a monster reincarnation of Horatio Alger and an endless, palimpsestic barrage of pop-culture heroes serving their sentence in the rotating cycle of shit eating through you. A man on the move? But metaphisically so.

But honestly, read it alongside Fear and Trembling and tell me Raoul Duke isn't the last true Knight of Faith.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SvlfbCulS64

>>8286460
The American dream is peripheral to the story.

watch Mad Men

>>8286413
Revolutionary Road by Richard Yates. Also, made into a movie starring Leonardo DiCaprio.

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The New Class Society: Goodbye American Dream?

>>8286460
Did you write this yourself? And agreed, first book that came to mind when I read OP's post

>>8288158
Yeah, I wrote it - I mean, it's just improvised bullshit, if true.

>>8287219
"No" - but how do you mean

Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller
Fear and Loathing by Hunter S. Thompson
Life and Times of Frederick Douglass
Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck

>>8286413
J R

>>8288786
The first bit of it is over the top though after "borgesian deserts" it gets pretty good. I was ready to cringe but ended up enjoying that post.

>>8288868
Thanks, feels nice to be able to do justice to one of my favourite books

>>8286413
American Pastoral
Born on the Fourth of July
Blood Meridian
The Killer Angels

>>8286413
Untold History of the United States

>>8286413
The bible.