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Historian James Truslow Adams often receives credit for first popularizing the idea of the American dream.
Third is the sense that the United States' history and mission gives it a superiority over other nations. The theory of the exceptionalism of the U.S. can be traced to French political scientist and historian Alexis de Tocqueville, the first writer to describe the country as exceptional in 1831 and 1840.