The American dream

… so far as the American dream is concerned, the dream of the open society and of the open road, that too was an outer landscape, which has gone the way of picturesque poetry into the dustbin of obsolescent equipment.1

  1. ‘Prospect Of America’ (Review of: The Image: What Happened to the American Dream, by Daniel J Boorstin), University of Toronto Quarterly, 32:1,  October 1962 ↩