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Historian James Truslow Adams often receives credit for first popularizing the idea of the American dream.
In fact, the only interesting thing to be learned in Meacham's piece is that the phrase the American Dream -- a term promiscuously used by wild-eyed lefties, mild-mannered suburban progressives, old, new and crackpot conservatives, and by every politician with a microphone, all of which should give pause -- wasn't even coined until 1931 by a freelance historian named James Truslow Adams (no relation to the famous Adams clan), an investment-banker-turned-writer (thank you ...