| Description |
xiv, 279 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm |
| Note |
Originated as thesis, University of Iowa. |
| Contents |
Introduction: the meaning of the self-made man -- 1. Natural aristocracy and the new republic: the idea of mobility in the thought of Franklin and Jefferson -- 2. Age of the self-made man -- 3. Self-improvement and self-culture: Ralph Waldo Emerson -- 4. From rags to respectability: Horatio Alger -- 5. Self-made man and industrial America: the portrayal of mobility in the nineteenth-century novel -- 6. Philosophers of success -- 7. Dream or rat race?: success in the twentieth century -- 8. Individual success and the community: John Dewey's philosophy of success. |
| Bibliography |
"Bibliographical notes": pages 259-271. |
| Subject |
Success.
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Success. |
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