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Horatio Alger Debunked

Huffington Post (blog) - Jan 19, 2012
Since the late nineteenth century, the model has been the Horatio Alger stories. In pamphlets with wonderfully alliterative titles, the hero (Determined Dick, Terrific Tom, etc.) starts out poor, and through smarts, Puritan work ethic, and improbable ...

5 at BH High win Horatio Algers

Herald Palladium (subscription) - Jan 25, 2012
By KATE GENELLIE - HP Staff Writer BENTON HARBOR - When five Benton Harbor High School seniors were told they had won Horatio Alger scholarships, each was shocked. Benton Harbor students have a history of winning the $5000 scholarship, but with only 15 ...

RedBlue America: Is US economy fair or unfair?

ScrippsNews - Jan 26, 2012
There were once opportunities to rise from humble circumstances. That's not really the case anymore. Horatio Alger may have become famous writing rags-to-riches tales about opportunity in America. But Horatio Alger is dead and mostly forgotten.

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Ragged Dick by Horatio Alger. Very early edition 1869

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50 Success Classics: Winning Wisdom for Life and Work from 50 Landmark Books

by: Tom Butler-Bowdon
In pursuit of a better career, more money, a new direction, or a higher purpose? Millions of readers relentlessly search for the one great book that will inspire them to chart a course to personal and professional fulfillment. Tom Butler-Bowdon, best-selling author of the 50 Classics series, is back with 50 Success Classics: Winning Wisdom for Work and Life from 50 Landmark Books, a wide-ranging collection of enduring works by pioneering thinkers, philosophers, and corporate America's most powerful leaders who have shown us how to Think and Grow Rich, develop The Habits of Highly Effective People, become The One-Minute Manager, discover The Art of Worldly Wisdom, and solve the challenging puzzle of Who Moved My Cheese? From amusing and enlightening parables to the inspirational rags-to-riches stories of industrialists, philanthropists, and entrepreneurs, 50 Success Classics summarizes each industry's key ideas and clarifies how these insights and techniques promote self-growth.
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Ragged Dick

by: Horatio Alger Jr.

Ragged Dick; or, Street Life in New York with the Boot Blacks is arguably the best known of Horatio Alger’s American rags-to-riches stories.

It is canonical as a cultural text, rather than a purely literary one, as this Norton Critical Edition reflects. An extensive “Contexts” section includes maps, photographs, and documents showing how and why Alger used the backdrop of New York City to highlight problems of urban poverty, immigration, and child labor in mid-nineteenth century America.
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