“The Dream obsessed him … but what was it?”

— William McKeen

Source: Outlaw Journalist (2008), Chapter 8, American Dream, p. 118
Context: The Dream obsessed him... but what was it? Was it Horatio Alger, rags to riches, the idea that you could start with nothing and end up rolling naked in stacks of hundreds? Or was it a dream of freedom? Personal freedom... or the concept of freedom that the founders brought into the whole world?

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