Download or read book Psychological Politics of the American Dream written by Lois Tyson and published by Ohio State University Press. This book was released on 1994 with total page 173 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While it is reasonable to assume that our national literature would offer a fertile field in which to explore the interaction between the ideological and psychological dimensions of American life, critics generally have kept these two domains separate, and the dominant model has consisted of an archaic notion of the individual in society.