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2) Martin Dressler: the tale of an American dreamer

"Brent Cummings, an Iraq war veteran, has come home feeling he survived one war only to find himself in the midst of another one. The country he loves and defended for twenty-eight years seems to be unraveling in front of his eyes. Raised to believe in avision of America that values fairness, honesty, and respect for others, Cummings is increasingly engulfed by the fear and anger sweeping through his beloved country as he tries to hold onto hope about...

Author:

Millhauser, Steven

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English

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c1996

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Crown

viii, 294 p. ; 22 cm.

1997

Vintage Books

viii, 293 pages ; 21 cm

3) American dreamers: how the left changed a nation

Author:

Kazin, Michael, 1948-

Pub. Date:

2011

Language:

English

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xix, 329 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

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1 of 1	East Lyme Public Adult Non-Fiction	320.5309 Kazin
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2011

Alfred A. Knopf

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ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: NEWSWEEK/THE DAILY BEAST, THE NEW REPUBLIC, THE PROGRESSIVE
The definitive history of the reformers, radicals, and idealists who fought for a different America, from the abolitionists to Michael Moore and Noam Chomsky.

While the history of the left is a long story of idealism and determination, it has also been a story of movements that failed to gain support from mainstream America.

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4) American Dreamer

Author:

Herrera, Adriana

Publisher:

Carina Press

Language:

English

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Holbrook, Stewart H., 1893-1964

From award-winning author Adriana Herrera comes a novel hailed as one of Entertainment Weekly's 10 Best Romance Novels of 2019 and a TODAY Show Hot Summer Read."A fresh and vital new voice in romance."-Entertainment Weekly"[Adriana Herrera] is writing some of my favorite Afro-Latinx characters and giving us beautiful love stories along the way."-New York Times bestselling author Elizabeth Acevedo No one ever said big dreams come easy For Nesto Vasquez,...

5) Dreamers of the American dream

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English

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[1st ed.]

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Visionaries, crackpots, fanatics, dreamers, suffragettes, temperance workers, be-sloganned devotees of betterment in marriage, religion, sex, alcohol, labor relations, penal codes and the treatment of mental illness rub shoulders in a book, which encompasses the American dream of Utopia, sobriety and the pursuit of happiness.

6) American DREAMers

Publisher:

Gravitas Ventures

Pub. Date:

2016

Language:

English

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American DREAMers follows the journey of group of five undocumented youth and an ally who risk their freedom by publicly coming out as undocumented and walking 3,000 miles across America's heartland to organize for immigrant rights.

7) American Dreamer

Author:

Tran, Tim

Publisher:

Pacific University

Pub. Date:

2020

Language:

English

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8) Great American outpost: dreamers, mavericks, and the making of an oil frontier

American Dreamer is an inspirational, first-hand account of the motivating power of an immigrant's dream for a better life. From the rural Vietnam of Tim Tran's childhood to his eventual escape to America and his rise as CFO of a multi-billion-dollar company, Tran's memoir is a lesson in perseverance and ingenuity. After he initially left Vietnam in 1970 to attend American universities on a USAID scholarship, Tran's sense of commitment led him home...

Author:

Rao, Maya, 1984-

Pub. Date:

2018

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English

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vii, 324 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

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2018

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Public Affairs

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9) American Dreamer: Dreamers (Herrera)

A surreal, lyrical work of narrative nonfiction that portrays how the largest domestic oil discovery in half a century transformed a forgotten corner of the American West into a crucible of breakneck capitalism. As North Dakota became the nation's second-largest oil producer, Maya Rao set out in steel-toe boots to join a wave of drifters, dreamers, entrepreneurs, and criminals. With an eye for the dark, absurd, and humorous, Rao fearlessly immersed...

Author:

Herrera, Adriana

Series:

Dreamers volume 1

Publisher:

Harlequin Audio

Pub. Date:

2019

Language:

English

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10) Bill Frisell, beautiful dreamer: the guitarist who changed the sound of American music

No one ever said big dreams come easy. For Nesto Vasquez, moving his Afro-Caribbean food truck from New York City to the wilds of Upstate New York is a huge gamble. If it works? He'll be a big fish in a little pond. If it doesn't? He'll have to give up the hustle and return to the day job he hates. He's got six months to make it happen-the last thing he needs is a distraction. Jude Fuller is proud of the life he's built on the banks of Cayuga Lake....

Author:

Watson, Philip (Journalist)

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English

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viii, 548 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm

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2022

Faber & Faber Ltd

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11) American dreamer: my life in fashion & business

Over a period of forty-five years, Bill Frisell has established himself as one of the most innovative musicians at work today. A quietly revolutionary guitar hero for our genre-blurring times, he has synthesised many disparate musical elements - from jazz to pop, folk to film music, ambient to avant-garde, country to classical - into one compellingly singular sound. Described as 'the favourite guitarist of many people who agree on little else in...

Author:

Hilfiger, Tommy

Publisher:

Ballantine Books

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[2016]

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English

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xii, 337 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm

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[2016]

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12) American dreamer: the life and times of Henry A. Wallace

Author:

Culver, John C., 1932-2018

Publisher:

Norton

Pub. Date:

c2000

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English

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xi, 608 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

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1 of 1	Guilford Adult Biography	BIOG WALLACE, HENRY

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c2000

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Norton

13) American Fairytale: Dreamers

Author:

Herrera, Adriana

Series:

Dreamers volume 2

Publisher:

Harlequin Audio

Pub. Date:

2019

Language:

English

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14) Dreamers: an immigrant generation's fight for their American dream

Fairy-tale endings don't just happen; they have to be fought for. New York City social worker Camilo Santiago Briggs grew up surrounded by survivors who taught him to never rely on anything you didn't earn yourself. He's always dreamed of his own happily-ever-after, but he lives in the real world. Men who seem too good to be true…usually are. And Milo never ever mixes business with pleasure…until the mysterious man he had an unforgettable hookup...

Author:

Truax, Eileen

Publisher:

Beacon Press

Pub. Date:

2015

Language:

English

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15) You are not American: citizenship stripping from Dred Scott to the dreamers

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"In 2001 a bill was presented to the US Congress, known as the DREAM Act. The purpose of this bill was to fix the immigration status of almost two million undocumented youth who came to the country as minors through no choice of their own but now as young adults, with no legal identity, they may be unable to attend college, and live under the constant threat of deportation. These young people are known as Dreamers. As part of activist organizations...

Author:

Frost, Amanda

Publisher:

Beacon Press

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English

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240 pages : black and white illustrations ; 24 cm

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16) American science and invention, a pictorial history: the fabulous story of how American dreamers, wizards, and inspired tinkerers converted a wilderness into the wonder of the world

"Frost explores how the United States' concept of citizenship and the rights of citizens has evolved, and especially how it has been challenged"--

Author:

Wilson, Mitchell A.

Publisher:

Simon and Schuster

Pub. Date:

[1954]

Language:

English

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ix, 437 p. ill., ports., map. 32 cm.

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1 of 1	Orange/Case Adult Nonfiction Book	609 Wilson [Oversized]

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[1954]

Simon and Schuster

17) Holding On: Dreamers, Visionaries, Eccentrics and Other American Heroes

Author:

Isay, David

Publisher:

Shanachie

Pub. Date:

2005

Language:

English

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18) The Man Who Walked Backward: An American Dreamer's Search for Meaning in the Great Depression

Author:

Montgomery, Ben

Publisher:

Hachette Audio

Pub. Date:

2018

Language:

English

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19) The king of confidence: a tale of utopian dreamers, frontier schemers, true believers, false prophets, and the murder of an American monarch

From Pulitzer Prize finalist Ben Montgomery, the story of a Texas man who, during the Great Depression, walked around the world -- backwards. Like most Americans at the time, Plennie Wingo was hit hard by the effects of the Great Depression. When the bank foreclosed on his small restaurant in Abilene, he found himself suddenly penniless with nowhere left to turn. After months of struggling to feed his family on wages he earned digging ditches in...

Author:

Harvey, Miles, 1960-

Publisher:

Little Brown and Company

Pub. Date:

2020

Language:

English

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ix, 401 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

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1 of 1	Madison/Scranton Adult Nonfiction	289.3092 HARVEY
1 of 1	Norwich/Otis Adult Nonfiction	364.163 HAR
1 of 1	Wallingford Adult Biographies	B STRANG JAMES HA

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2020

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Little Brown and Company

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