DiscoverTracing The Path: The Connected 20th CenturyEpisode 58: The Cultural Impact of Don McLean's "American Pie" (and the part Roberta Flack played)
Episode 58: The Cultural Impact of Don McLean's "American Pie" (and the part Roberta Flack played)

Episode 58: The Cultural Impact of Don McLean's "American Pie" (and the part Roberta Flack played)

Update: 2024-10-23
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The "American Dream" was first coined in 1931. In 1971 two things happened on exactly the same day . . . the world's biggest song was released lamenting the end of the American Dream. And the world's biggest dreamer opened the most amazing American institution. In today's episode we cross paths with Apple Pie, James Truslow Adams, Buddy Holly, Billy McGuigan, Pat Hazell, Don McLean, Roberta Flack, Richard Valenzuela, Johnny Appleseed and Walt Disney among others. 

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Episode 58: The Cultural Impact of Don McLean's "American Pie" (and the part Roberta Flack played)

Episode 58: The Cultural Impact of Don McLean's "American Pie" (and the part Roberta Flack played)

Dan R. Morris - 20th Century Historian