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American Dream
2 reading guides and book lists curated by the Editors Reads team.
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Best Books About Ambition and the American Dream
The best books about ambition and the American Dream — from The Great Gatsby and Revolutionary Road to Babbitt and The Corrections. Essential reading on ambition and failure.
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Books Like The Great Gatsby: The American Dream, Class, and Longing
Fitzgerald's portrait of Jay Gatsby reaching for the green light is the defining American novel of illusion and disillusion. These books share its obsession with reinvention, its gorgeous prose, and its brutal honesty about who America lets succeed.
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