The national bestseller that shows how the American Dream is languishing, surpassed worldwide by a powerful alternative in the lifestyle of the new Europe.
The European Dream
Introduction
New Lessons from the Old World
1. The Slow Death of the American Dream
2. The New Land of Opportunity
3. THe Quiet Economic Miracle
The Making of the Modern Age
4. Space, Time, and Modernity
5. Creating the Individual
6. Inventing the Ideolgy of Property
7. Forging Capitalist Markets and Nation-States
The Coming Global Era
8. Network Commerce in a GLobalized Economy
9. The "United States" of Europe
10. Government Without a Center
11. Romancing the Civil Society
12. The Immigrant Dilemma
13. unity in Diversity
14. Waging Peace
15. A Second Enlightenment
16. Universalizing the European Dream
Notes
Bibliography
Index
"The European Dream should be required reading on both sides of the Atlantic."—Andrew Moravcsik, The Financial Times
"At a time when many Americans are feeling increasingly isolated, Rifkin carves out a provocative window for self-reflection and appraisal."—Negar Akhavi, San Francisco Chronicle
