... determine any one American Dream', or set of morals generally followed, dictated by an influential figure such as Benjamin Franklin. For instance, in many middle class, white dominated suburbs, Franklin's model American is still used as a template on which one should model themselves to register their success. Whereas ... regardless of how realistic it is in today's society, or even of the society of the eighteenth century, it would be that which Benjamin Franklin deliberately exemplified, for the successful creation not only of his own but the colonies' destiny' . Thomas Jefferson's in...

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