Specific term required. Jim Cullen’s 2003 “short history” of this concept notes that publishers deemed it too strange a title for the 1931 bestseller in which James Truslow Adams coined it. This concept titles a film about a strike at Hormel Foods, the second Oscar-winning documentary by Barbara Kopple. Raoul Duke asks people where he can find this subtitular concept in the book Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas. A resolution that this concept exists “at the expense of” the “Negro” framed a Cambridge Union Society debate between James Baldwin and William F. Buckley Jr. This concept names an East Rutherford, New Jersey facility that is the U.S.’s second-largest shopping mall. A 2017 paper by Raj Chetty et al. calls this idea “fading,” as shown by declining absolute income mobility. For 10 points, give this term for belief in paths to success afforded by the U.S. ■END■
ANSWER: the American Dream [or the heart of the American Dream; prompt on dreams] (Adams’s book was titled The Epic of America.)
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