Summary of the Kevin Philips’s Essay “The Downside of the American Dream” In the essay “The Downside of the American Dream” Kevin Phillips brings up the issue that by the end of 80-s “the American dream” was endangered. By “the American dream” he means the middle class, a stable family with children, a sense of security in life, a house, a car, college education for kids. He believes that all of that became almost …showed first 75 words of 420 total…

…showed last 75 words of 420 total…increasing rate of part-time and temporary jobs interfere with the growing concern of white-collar and blue-collar workers about “job security” and fear to loose their jobs. All these facts supported with a lot of statistics make Kelvin Phillips’s point of view very strong and ensure the reader that by 1988 “the American dream” became just an illusory dream for an average American and was much further from its realization then it was back in 70-s.