The «American Dream» viewed and interpreted from the «Big Apple», the city of New York, in the half-dozen years before the reality of the numbers and the harsh questioning brought about by the «Great Depression» but contemporary in the moral limitations – the prohibition handed down by the «dry law» – that shall define a before and an after to the dream of this still young nation. While having also resulted in plays and films, this eternal book would only undergo widespread rediscovery with the renewed confidence in humanity generated by the end of World War Two.