1878-1949

Born in Brooklyn, New York, in 1878.

Childhood abroad.

Polytechnic Institute.

Yale & Columbia Universities.

New York Stock Exchange.

History

“The Inquiry” (1917)

Peace Conference in Paris

Military Intelligence Division

The founding of New England (Pulitzer Prize)

Our business civilization (1929)

The Adams Family (1930)

The March of Democracy (1933)

The Epic of America (1931)

The Epic of America (1931) “[…]that dream of a land in which life should be better

and richer and fuller for everyone, with opportunity for each according to ability or achievement. It is a difficult dream for the European upper classes to interpret adequately, and too many of us ourselves have grown weary and mistrustful of it. It is not a dream of motor cars and high wages merely, but a dream of social order in which each man and each woman shall be able to attain to the fullest stature of which they are innately capable, and be recognized by others for what they are, regardless of the fortuitous circumstances of birth or position.”

This idea of the American Dream is rooted in the United States Declaration of Independence.

He died in 1949, aged 70, in Southport, Connecticut.

“There are obviously two educations. One should teach us how to make a living and the other how to live.

James Truslow Adams