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The fictional republic : Horatio Alger and American political discourse / Carol Nackenoff

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Nackenoff, Carol
Published
New York : Oxford University Press, 1994.
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1 online resource (xii, 364 pages) : illustrations
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Contents
Preface; 1 Allegory of the Republic: On Interpretation and Method; 2 A Unitarian Project for Moral Guidance; 3 Republican Rites of Passage: Character and the Battle for Youth; 4 Guidebooks for Survival in an Industrializing Economy; 5 Saved From the Factory; 6 Technology, Organizations, Corporations, and Capitalists; 7 Natural Aristocracy in a Democracy: Authority, Power, and Politics; 8 Money, Price, and Value: Alger's Interventions in the Market; 9 Levelling and Its Limits; 10 Reading Alger: Searching for Alger's Audience in the Literary Marketplace.
Summary
Investigating the enduring quality of Horatio Alger's political theories, this historical study shows how his ideas of hard work tempered by virtue's rewards struck a chord during the economic transformations of the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
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ISBN
1423764862 (electronic bk.)
9781423764861 (electronic bk.)
1602566194
9781602566194
9786610443239
6610443238
019507923X (Cloth)
9780195079234
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 336-353) and indexes.
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