Comment on Nobel winner Stiglitz: “American Dream is a myth”parentComments−dredmorbius11y1940s is about right:https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=American+Dream...Earlier instances would have been Manifest Destiny and the concept of progress, which emerged in the mid 19th century.
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1940s is about right:
https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=American+Dream...
Earlier instances would have been Manifest Destiny and the concept of progress, which emerged in the mid 19th century.