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 | The American Dream and the Power of Wealth: Choosing Schools and Inheriting Inequality in the Land of Opportunity (1st Edition) by Heather Beth Johnson, Hb Johnson Paperback, 246 Pages, Published 2006 ISBN-10: 0-415-95239-5 / 0415952395 ISBN-13: 978-0-415-95239-2 / 9780415952392 The American Dream and the Power of Wealth investigates the way that wealth (rather than income) structures educational opportunity in the United States. Furthermore, it shows the way that educational opportunity-the bedrock upon which our pervasive ideology of meritocracy or, in Johnson's terms, "t | |