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The Land of Hope Again? An Old Dream for a New America
Author:
Dominique Moisi
September/October 2008 Foreign Affairs
The United States will have to recover or reinvent the culture of hope—with its unique blend of dynamism, flexibility, and openness—that characterizes the American dream. The new America that both Americans and the rest of the world need today is nothing more than the old America that has been lost.