After World War II, Jew­ish com­mu­ni­ties joined the effort to cre­ate a vibrant mid­dle class and became a shin­ing exam­ple what it meant to live the Amer­i­can Dream. Cas­cade Falls explores the cur­rent unrav­el­ing of that dream and its effect on all mid­dle-class fam­i­lies. Raised to believe that with hard work any­thing is pos­si­ble, a stag­ger­ing num­ber of Amer­i­cans now hate their jobs and see lit­tle chance of ever escap­ing the grind. Bruce Fer­ber asks the ques­tion: ​“How does giv­ing up our dreams affect our rela­tion­ships and our psyches?”