Saving the American Dream: Meditations for Dark Times - Paperback

by John K. Roth (Author)

The American Dream at its best is an ethical ideal and a moral compass. If respected and sustained, it can guide the United States through Trump 2.0. Anchored in the US Constitution, Saving the American Dream features meditations for dark times. Meditations are intentional acts of focused attention. They seek insight--clear and deep understanding--about critical issues. What, for example, is most important for the United States today? Are we Americans doing the best we can? How may inquiry about the American Dream advance the reflection and action needed now to support and defend the Constitution of the United States?



Saving the American Dream is a journey that goes where such questions lead. Its fundamental premise is that individuals moved to communal action by warned awareness and committed resistance are indispensable to meet challenges that grow by the day. Guidance from reliable American writers--philosophers, historians, novelists, poets, essayists, religious thinkers--maps the way.

Author Biography

John K. Roth is the Edward J. Sexton Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at Claremont McKenna College. He is the author or editor of more than sixty books, including Warnings: The Holocaust, Ukraine, and Endangered American Democracy (Cascade, 2023), Stress Test: The Israel-Hamas War and Christian-Jewish Relations (2025), and This Time: Teaching the Holocaust Today (2026).