With his new docuseries Amerigo coming to PBS, Emmy-winning producer David McCourt wanted to examine a complicated question.
If his own grandfather “came to this country at 16 years old, uneducated, got a job as a janitor, raised my mother, bought a home, and died debt-free,” do these possibilities still exist for the average American today?
“And if [they’re] not possible,” he asks, “is that the country we want to live in?”
Examining what happened to the American Dream as the United States approaches its 250th anniversary in 2026, the film saw McCourt “cross the country, listen,” and allow Americans to express how they feel, “without a political agenda.”
What he heard, he said, was “eye-opening.”
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To McCourt, the Irish-American entrepreneur, investor, author, and producer behind Granahan McCourt Capital, who is a self-professed “capitalist,” the problems America
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