Introduction -- Prologue : First, America first -- Part one. 1900-1920. The American dream 1900-1916 : the spirit of American dreams -- America first 1900-1916 : pure Americanism against the universe ...

Sarah Churchwell is the author, most recently, of The Wrath to Come: Gone With the Wind and the Lies America Tells. The fear that overtook us that day in 1988 was unfamiliar to most Americans. Now all ...

Allusions to what we celebrate as the “American dream” are so ubiquitous that it might seem that everyone knows what the phrase refers to. In “Behold, America,” Sarah Churchwell, an American-born ...

Churchwell, a historian of modern American culture at the University of London, argues that the simple phrases “American dream” and “America first” have long and complicated histories and that their ...