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“Crime and the fear of crime have permeated the fabric of American life.”

Crime Fabric American Life

Author:Warren E. Burger

“When the Promise of American life is conceived as a national ideal, whose fulfillment is a matter of artful and laborious work, the effect thereof is substantially to identify the national purpose with the social problem.”

Matter Problem Life Is Purpose Social Effects Promise Ideals Fulfillment American Life Social Problems

Book:The Promise of American Life

Source: The Promise of American Life

“I love stories that give me a perspective on how easy American life has become in the 21st century.”

Giving Stories Easy Century Perspective Give Me Love Story 21st Century American Life

Author:Hope Davis

“Dennis Hopper is one of the great American lives.”

American Life Great American

Author:Jeffrey Deitch

“West Indian cultural mentality and a North American life equals the perfect balance.”

Perfect Balance West Indian Mentality American Life Perfect Balance

Author:Melanie Fiona

“The Holocaust only emerged in American life after Israel's victory in the 1967 Six Day war against its Arab neighbours.”

War Victory Six Israel Holocaust Neighbour American Life

Author:Norman Finkelstein

“Income taxes are responsible for the transformation of the Federal government from one of limited powers into a vast leviathan whose tentacles reach into almost every aspect of American life.”

Government Taxes Aspect Transformation Responsible Income Federal Government Income Tax American Life Tentacles Leviathan

Book:Pillars of Prosperity: Free Markets, Honest Money, Private Property

Source: Pillars of Prosperity: Free Markets, Honest Money, Private Property

“Frank Capra, Hollywood's Horatio Alger, lights with more cinematic know-how and zeal than any other director to convince movie audiences that American life is exactly like the 'Saturday Evening Post' covers of Norman Rockwell. 'It's A Wonderful Life,' the latest example of Capracorn, shows his art at a hysterical pitch.”

“The surface of American life looks smooth, prosperous, peaceful. But underneath, fault-line shifts in family and work life have led us into what some have called 'advanced insecurity.”

Looks Lines Faults Surface Peaceful Insecurity Smooth Prosperous American Life

Author:Arlie Russell Hochschild