PrefaceAcknowledgments1 The Ambiguity of the Dream in American History2 The Promise and Peril of Life in New World3 The Founder's Dream and Its Limits4 Democracy and Melancholy: The Visions and Fears of Emerson, Melville, and Lincoln5 Individualism and Combination in the Age of the Robber Barons6 The Dream in Prosperity and Depression7 The Dream Unmoored: The Rise of Entitlement from Truman to LBJ8 The Dream in Doubt: Opportunity to Uncertainty from Regan to Obama9 American Dreams and Doubts in the Twenty-First CenturyNotesBibliographyIndex