The lost life of Horatio Alger, Jr.
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Bales, Jack, author.
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General Shelving - 3rd Floor
PS1029.A3 Z84 1985
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PS1029.A3 Z84 1985
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| Location | Call Number | Status |
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| General Shelving - 3rd Floor | PS1029.A3 Z84 1985 | On Shelf |
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Book
Physical Desc
xxii, 199 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 24 cm
Language
English
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 157-192) and index.
Description
Horatio Alger's rags-to-riches juvenile novels of poor boys parlaying "luck and pluck'' into "fame and fortune"' did much to shape and popularize the American success myth. This is a biography of the intensely private man. Ousted from a Unitarian pulpit in Brewster, Massachusetts, in 1866 for sodomizing young boys, Alger spent the final half of his life obscuring his past, and ordered all personal papers burned after his death in 1899. In 1927, the essential Alger was further obscured when Herbert Mayes published a fabricated biography based on a nonexistent diary which "exposed'' Alger as a lecher who wrote to fund his travels in pursuit of a married woman.
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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)
Scharnhorst, G., & Bales, J. (1985). The lost life of Horatio Alger, Jr. . Indiana University Press.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Scharnhorst, Gary and Jack, Bales. 1985. The Lost Life of Horatio Alger, Jr.. Bloomington: Indiana University Press.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Scharnhorst, Gary and Jack, Bales. The Lost Life of Horatio Alger, Jr. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1985.
Harvard Citation (style guide)Scharnhorst, G. and Bales, J. (1985). The lost life of horatio alger, jr.. Bloomington: Indiana University Press.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)Scharnhorst, Gary,, and Jack Bales. The Lost Life of Horatio Alger, Jr. Indiana University Press, 1985.
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