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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...
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A biography of Horatio Alger. Alger's own life was so unlike his heroes that the public would have been shocked to know about it. Offers insights into the man and his writings, the America he lived in (1834-1899), and the curious phenomenon he helped give voice to--the American dream.
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