As our National Anthem, The Star Spangled Banner tells us, America is “…the land of the free and the home of the brave.” This being true and also having freedom often directly associated with America in general, why in this day and age is freedom a value that is manytimes overlooked when speaking of the American Dream? Changing times, political issues, and technology may be the answers.

The attempt to capture the American Dream is central to many novels, including “The Great Gatsby,” and “The Coming of Age in Mississippi.” "Our great cities and our mighty buildings will avail us not if we lack spiritual strength to subdue mere objects to the higher purposes of humanity," is what Lyndon B. Johnson had to say about materialism. He knew the value of money, and he realized the

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