It is because of stories like these that the historian Daniel Boorstin declared mordantly that “the colonies were a disproving ground for utopias.” There is ample ground for his saying so; it is the ironic side of being a land of hope. Being a land of hope may also mean, at times, being a land of disappointment. The history of the United States contains both. It is hard to have one without the other.
Land Of hope and disappointment
