Is the American Dream for Anybody?

Diploma Thesis from the year 2010 in the subject American Studies - Literature grade: 4 Universität of Szeged (Dept. of Arts) language: English abstract: In the following thesis the dear reader will find a lot about E. L. Doctorow his 1975 novel Ragtime and anything else in connection with these two. In my thesis I tried to use all the interesting secondary sources I had been able to find in order to collect the most important info one might desire if interested in modern 20th-21st century American literature especially in midfiction.Ragtime equals to anything that took place in the turn-of-the-century United States including many names as Ford Houdini and Nesbit.