The fictional republic : Horatio Alger and American political discourse

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.

Record details

ISBN: 6610443238
ISBN: 9786610443239
ISBN: 9781602566194
ISBN: 1602566194
ISBN: 9781423764861
ISBN: 1423764862
Physical Description: 1 online resource (xii, 364 pages) : illustrations
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Publisher: New York : Oxford University Press, 1994.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 336-353) and indexes.
Formatted Contents Note:	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.
Restrictions on Access Note:	NLC staff and students only.
Source of Description Note:	Print version record.