American dreamers

"When politicians and pundits refer to the American Dream, they do so to evoke images of national unity, identity, and a better future. But in what ways does this metaphor manifest in the actual dreams of sleeping Americans? In American Dreamers, dream researcher Kelly Bulkeley takes the ideology of the American Dream one step further - into the study of sleeping dreams - to explore how the nocturnal side of human existence offers a key to the psychological origins of people's waking beliefs and political passions."--Jacket.