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The series opens with a discussion of The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin, which has influenced ideas about the American dream for over 200 years.
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This session is centered on Letters from an American Farmer, J. Hector St. John Crevecoeur's influential account of a foreigner trying to understand what makes someone "American."
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A discussion of The Transplanted: A History of Immigrants in Urban America by John Bodnar, which explores the experience of immigrants coming to an increasingly urban America in teh late 19th and early 20th centuries.
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The series concludes with a conversation about A Different Mirror: A History of Multicultural America, Ronald Takaki's illuminating examination of what it means to be American in a multi-ethnic society.
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