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The funny thing about the American Dream

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What if all the motivational speakers are wrong? Writer and humorist Harrison Scott Key uses his own unremarkable journey from country boy to -- if you ask his mom -- literary star to illustrate the mildly outrageous truth about what it really takes to achieve the American Dream.

What if all the motivational speakers are wrong? Writer and humorist Harrison Scott Key uses his own unremarkable journey from country boy to -- if you ask his mom -- literary star to illustrate the mildly outrageous truth about what it really takes to achieve the American Dream.

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Harrison Scott Key

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Harrison Scott Key is the author of Congratulations, Who Are You Again? and The World's Largest Man: A Memoir, winner of the Thurber Prize for American Humor.

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This talk was presented to a local audience at TEDxSavannah, an independent event.

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