John Jakes was a prolific but obscure writer for some twenty years, until his "American Bicentennial" series of historical novels captured the public's imagination and made him famous. Jakes had publi...
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John Jakes, variously called the "godfather of the historical novel," "the people's author," and "America's history teacher," is the acknowledged contemporary master of the family saga. Best known as ...
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Recently, Parade Magazine published a feature that posed the question "Is the American Dream Still Possible?" Eighty percent of the respondents to an October 2005 survey of 2,200 middle-income Amer...
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An Indonesian whose family sold property and cars to pay his tuition, a boy who played soccer on a potholed street in Lima and an aspiring architect from Mumbai _ dreams and struggles brought them ...
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By Michael Abernethy / Times NewsKim Oliver did it once. Saturday, he’ll do it again. Oliver, owner of O&S Concrete, is organizing a protest against amnesty for illegal immigrants this we...
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WASHINGTON(Reuters) - Black Americans are failing
to climb the social ladder, while a worrying number born into
the middle classes are now actually poorer than their parents,
according to a study ...
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San Francisco (dpa) - Newlywed Sheila Haller had her doubts when
she and her husband plunked down 425,000 dollars in early 2006 to buy
a nice, three-bedroom home in the fast...
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Los Angeles (dpa) - We heard it in 1975 when Pele came to the New
York Cosmos. We heard it again when the United States hosted the
World Cup in 1994.
And now ...
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BERLIN, Nov 19 (Reuters) - Andrew Curry once loved going out
for dinner and drinks in Berlin, feeling far wealthier in the
German capital than he did at home in the United States. With the dollar ...
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As the search for the missing mother of four dead children entered a third day Wednesday, a portrait began to emerge of an immigrant family struggling to live the American dream.Pedro Rodriguez and...
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A man charged with raping a woman in 2005 is now accused of killing her by slashing her throat because she had agreed to testify against him.Natasha Ramen, 20, was attacked Thursday just outside he...
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John Jakes
John (William) Jakes
What is the American Dream, Really?
