Segundo de Chomón made “trick films” that experimented with color and temporality, influencing the surrealist work of Luis Buñuel and Salvador Dalí. J.S. 19 (Summer, 1987), pp.

Rooks' book is White Money Black Power: African American Studies and the Crisis of Race in Higher Education. The period between the turn of the century and World War I was when “a Horatio Alger story” became the preferred name for what Moon calls a “male-capitalist Cinderella tale.”, With one exception, Alger’s heroes are boys who are chosen by rich white male patrons who see something special in them and raise them out of the mire. Spine a bit cocked, shallow losses to ends; additional rubbing to extremities; soiling to textblock throughout.

Hardcover. Generally a Very Good copy.

JSTOR Daily readers can access the original research behind our articles for free on JSTOR. Remains usable and attractive. (MORE: Joe Klein on Bill Clinton’s Speech).

Publisher's terra-cotta cloth binding with gilt stamped spine lettering & decorations.

7-1/16" x 4-3/8.". 296 pages. The epitome of this extraordinary accomplishment of the impossible feat of lifting oneself by the bootstraps was the Horatio Alger hero who goes from rags to riches aided by nothing more than honesty and hard work.

); original brown pictorial cloth embossed in black, decorative spine in black and gilt with the mysterious "American News Co." at spine foot; 258pp. Republican Senator Marco Rubio shared the details of his family’s immigration to the United States from Cuba and Democrat Elizabeth Warren talked about her rise from poverty and hardship to a professorship at Harvard Law School. "The Gentle Boy from the Dangerous Classes": Pederasty, Domesticity, and Capitalism in Horatio Alger, How Magazines Created a New Culture of Manhood, When the English Witnessed Battles in the Sky, The Decapitation Experiments of Jean César Legallois, What Bats Can Teach Humans About Coronavirus Immunity, At First, the Guitar Was a “Women’s Instrument”, The Bizarre Marvels of Segundo de Chomón, Father of Spanish Cinema, Furry Livestock, Scary Stories, and Octopus Perception, The Fight to Integrate Philadelphia’s Department Stores. In a famous essay, a scholar uncovered difficult truths about Alger, whose name has been associated with the “rags to riches” myth. Wood-engraved frontispiece and additional pictorial title-page, half-title. This is “a rich man’s fantasy of benevolence and philanthropy.” Alger’s works perpetuate “corporate/capitalist America’s long-cherished myth”: that elite white men “have their eye out for that exceptional, ‘deserving,’ ‘attractive’ underclass youth.”. They all either bootstrapped themselves up the economic ladder or benefitted from the bootstrapping of their parents and grandparents. First Edition. The Young Miner; or, Tom Nelson in California, by Horatio Alger, Jr. (Introduction by John Seelye).

A “Horatio Alger story” is supposed to be a rags-to-riches narrative: Poor boy becomes titan of industry through honest hard work. He moved to New York and remade himself into a phenomenally prolific author and was associated with the “boy charities” of the day.

Alger, in other words, “is known to have seduced boys sexually during at least one period of his career as well as to have actively participated in the reform movement to ‘seduce’ New York street boys away from their milieu into an at least minimally genteel way of life.”.
viii, 248 pp.

Many other books for boys following the same template followed, with titles like Luck and Pluck, Tattered Tom, and Brave and Bold. San Francisco: Printed by Adrian Wilson at his Press in Tuscany Alley, San Francisco for the Book Club of California, 1965. This is particularly true for African Americans who are stuck at the bottom more than any other group and may even to fall farther behind from one generation to the next. (Also includes podcasts, blog posts, an... [more about Latest Catalogs of Rare Books], Our members list new acquisitions and recently cataloged items almost every day of the year.

From Farm Boy to Senator; Being the History of the Boyhood and Manhood of Daniel Webster. Sought-after highlights include his first book of poems and short fiction, Bertha’s Christmas Vision: An Autumn Sheaf (1856) and first editions of Ragged Dick (1868). Below, you'll find a few highlights from these recent additions (many of a seasonal nature)... CINDERELLA b... [more about Weekly Highlights], HBO's latest hit show, "Lovecraft Country" is based on Matt Ruff's 2016 novel of the same name which mines the horror and mythology of H.P. While Michelle Obama, Elizabeth Warren and Chris Christies are all great examples of bootstrapping themselves to the Ivy League and political office, we do have to wonder what story they and their families could tell if they were growing up today. Publisher's purple cloth, covers blocked in blind, spine gilt; spine faded, top of spine rubbed, with some foxing.

Light extremity wear, with one tip just showing board. Alger's first book, published in his 24th year. Many of Alger's works were released in pulp paperback editions from 1900 to 1926. Hardcover. In an influential, ground-breaking essay, scholar Michael Moon shows that this isn’t actually the tale that Horatio Alger, Jr. (1832–99) wrote, rewrote, and retailed successfully for years during the Gilded Age. His writings were characterized by the "rags-to-riches" narrative, which had a formative effect on the United States during the Gilded Age. 87-110.

title page. First edition of Alger's FIRST BOOK.

First hardcover edition, very good in decorated blue cloth.

Representations, No. Check them out in the Street Arts Graphics Collection! Five sequels followed, and the book became Alger’s biggest success.

JSTOR Daily provides context for current events using scholarship found in JSTOR, a digital library of academic journals, books, and other material. Last night at the Democratic Convention, when Bill Clinton joked that every politician wants every voter to believe he grew up in a log cabin he built himself, he was acknowledging in part how hollow and meaningless the metaphor of bootstrapping has become.

Interior contents fresh and clean with very minor scattered toning, mostly marginal. Alger, the son of a unitarian minister was born in Chelsea, Ma. Bertha's Christmas Vision: An Autumn Sheaf (First Editon). New York, 1882. Join our new membership program on Patreon today. Decorative brown cloth stamped in black and gilt.

Rooks is an associate professor at Cornell University. The New Upper Class and the Real Reason We Dislike Them, Who’s Biggest? The Western Boy; or, The Road to Success (First Edition). Trade Paperback. Boston: Loring, Publisher, 1865. The concept of bootstrapping dates back to at least the 1890s, when Horatio Alger wrote novels about boys who worked hard and rose up the social ladder from poverty and is intertwined with that other mythical ideal, the American Dream. The cheap reprints published in the early part of the Twentieth Century are relatively common and inexpensive, but are popular for their vivid covers. His books met with their greatest success in the decades after his death, when cheap editions sold in the millions.

Boston: Loring, Publisher, 1868.

Withal, a pleasing VG+ copy.. 224, [2 (blank)] pp.

He became a prolific author, specialising in rags-to-riches tales. 18 x 12 cm. All Rights Reserved.

All rights reserved. Carleton & Co, 1878].

© ITHAKA.

Loring, who had published Alger’s first juvenile novel, Frank's Campaign; or, What Boys Can Do on the Farm for the Camp, in 1864.

This copy with ad leaf and Dick standing alone with his boot-blacking box: later issues have image of four street boys. Octavo. About Very Good. 254 pages. and attended Harvard. In his day, Horatio Alger, Jr. (1832-1899) was one of the most-famous authors in America. First edition of Alger's FIRST BOOK. Middle-class American manhood changed in the mid-twentieth century.

“Bootstraps were a typical feature of boots that you could pull on in the act of putting your boots on, but of course bootstraps wouldn’t actually help you pull yourself over anything,” Zimmer told HuffPost. The history of the guitar shows that musical instruments have been gendered—but just how changes over time. Volume three only in the "Luck and Pluck Series.". He employed several pseudonyms to try to spur interest or excitement and raise sales over the years (including Carl Cantab, Arthur Hamilton, Caroline F. Preston, Arthur Lee Putnam, and Julian Starr), and also applied his formula to the lives of famous Americans like Abraham Lincoln and Daniel Webster.


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Segundo de Chomón made “trick films” that experimented with color and temporality, influencing the surrealist work of Luis Buñuel and Salvador Dalí. J.S. 19 (Summer, 1987), pp.

Rooks' book is White Money Black Power: African American Studies and the Crisis of Race in Higher Education. The period between the turn of the century and World War I was when “a Horatio Alger story” became the preferred name for what Moon calls a “male-capitalist Cinderella tale.”, With one exception, Alger’s heroes are boys who are chosen by rich white male patrons who see something special in them and raise them out of the mire. Spine a bit cocked, shallow losses to ends; additional rubbing to extremities; soiling to textblock throughout.

Hardcover. Generally a Very Good copy.

JSTOR Daily readers can access the original research behind our articles for free on JSTOR. Remains usable and attractive. (MORE: Joe Klein on Bill Clinton’s Speech).

Publisher's terra-cotta cloth binding with gilt stamped spine lettering & decorations.

7-1/16" x 4-3/8.". 296 pages. The epitome of this extraordinary accomplishment of the impossible feat of lifting oneself by the bootstraps was the Horatio Alger hero who goes from rags to riches aided by nothing more than honesty and hard work.

); original brown pictorial cloth embossed in black, decorative spine in black and gilt with the mysterious "American News Co." at spine foot; 258pp. Republican Senator Marco Rubio shared the details of his family’s immigration to the United States from Cuba and Democrat Elizabeth Warren talked about her rise from poverty and hardship to a professorship at Harvard Law School. "The Gentle Boy from the Dangerous Classes": Pederasty, Domesticity, and Capitalism in Horatio Alger, How Magazines Created a New Culture of Manhood, When the English Witnessed Battles in the Sky, The Decapitation Experiments of Jean César Legallois, What Bats Can Teach Humans About Coronavirus Immunity, At First, the Guitar Was a “Women’s Instrument”, The Bizarre Marvels of Segundo de Chomón, Father of Spanish Cinema, Furry Livestock, Scary Stories, and Octopus Perception, The Fight to Integrate Philadelphia’s Department Stores. In a famous essay, a scholar uncovered difficult truths about Alger, whose name has been associated with the “rags to riches” myth. Wood-engraved frontispiece and additional pictorial title-page, half-title. This is “a rich man’s fantasy of benevolence and philanthropy.” Alger’s works perpetuate “corporate/capitalist America’s long-cherished myth”: that elite white men “have their eye out for that exceptional, ‘deserving,’ ‘attractive’ underclass youth.”. They all either bootstrapped themselves up the economic ladder or benefitted from the bootstrapping of their parents and grandparents. First Edition. The Young Miner; or, Tom Nelson in California, by Horatio Alger, Jr. (Introduction by John Seelye).

A “Horatio Alger story” is supposed to be a rags-to-riches narrative: Poor boy becomes titan of industry through honest hard work. He moved to New York and remade himself into a phenomenally prolific author and was associated with the “boy charities” of the day.

Alger, in other words, “is known to have seduced boys sexually during at least one period of his career as well as to have actively participated in the reform movement to ‘seduce’ New York street boys away from their milieu into an at least minimally genteel way of life.”.
viii, 248 pp.

Many other books for boys following the same template followed, with titles like Luck and Pluck, Tattered Tom, and Brave and Bold. San Francisco: Printed by Adrian Wilson at his Press in Tuscany Alley, San Francisco for the Book Club of California, 1965. This is particularly true for African Americans who are stuck at the bottom more than any other group and may even to fall farther behind from one generation to the next. (Also includes podcasts, blog posts, an... [more about Latest Catalogs of Rare Books], Our members list new acquisitions and recently cataloged items almost every day of the year.

From Farm Boy to Senator; Being the History of the Boyhood and Manhood of Daniel Webster. Sought-after highlights include his first book of poems and short fiction, Bertha’s Christmas Vision: An Autumn Sheaf (1856) and first editions of Ragged Dick (1868). Below, you'll find a few highlights from these recent additions (many of a seasonal nature)... CINDERELLA b... [more about Weekly Highlights], HBO's latest hit show, "Lovecraft Country" is based on Matt Ruff's 2016 novel of the same name which mines the horror and mythology of H.P. While Michelle Obama, Elizabeth Warren and Chris Christies are all great examples of bootstrapping themselves to the Ivy League and political office, we do have to wonder what story they and their families could tell if they were growing up today. Publisher's purple cloth, covers blocked in blind, spine gilt; spine faded, top of spine rubbed, with some foxing.

Light extremity wear, with one tip just showing board. Alger's first book, published in his 24th year. Many of Alger's works were released in pulp paperback editions from 1900 to 1926. Hardcover. In an influential, ground-breaking essay, scholar Michael Moon shows that this isn’t actually the tale that Horatio Alger, Jr. (1832–99) wrote, rewrote, and retailed successfully for years during the Gilded Age. His writings were characterized by the "rags-to-riches" narrative, which had a formative effect on the United States during the Gilded Age. 87-110.

title page. First edition of Alger's FIRST BOOK.

First hardcover edition, very good in decorated blue cloth.

Representations, No. Check them out in the Street Arts Graphics Collection! Five sequels followed, and the book became Alger’s biggest success.

JSTOR Daily provides context for current events using scholarship found in JSTOR, a digital library of academic journals, books, and other material. Last night at the Democratic Convention, when Bill Clinton joked that every politician wants every voter to believe he grew up in a log cabin he built himself, he was acknowledging in part how hollow and meaningless the metaphor of bootstrapping has become.

Interior contents fresh and clean with very minor scattered toning, mostly marginal. Alger, the son of a unitarian minister was born in Chelsea, Ma. Bertha's Christmas Vision: An Autumn Sheaf (First Editon). New York, 1882. Join our new membership program on Patreon today. Decorative brown cloth stamped in black and gilt.

Rooks is an associate professor at Cornell University. The New Upper Class and the Real Reason We Dislike Them, Who’s Biggest? The Western Boy; or, The Road to Success (First Edition). Trade Paperback. Boston: Loring, Publisher, 1865. The concept of bootstrapping dates back to at least the 1890s, when Horatio Alger wrote novels about boys who worked hard and rose up the social ladder from poverty and is intertwined with that other mythical ideal, the American Dream. The cheap reprints published in the early part of the Twentieth Century are relatively common and inexpensive, but are popular for their vivid covers. His books met with their greatest success in the decades after his death, when cheap editions sold in the millions.

Boston: Loring, Publisher, 1868.

Withal, a pleasing VG+ copy.. 224, [2 (blank)] pp.

He became a prolific author, specialising in rags-to-riches tales. 18 x 12 cm. All Rights Reserved.

All rights reserved. Carleton & Co, 1878].

© ITHAKA.

Loring, who had published Alger’s first juvenile novel, Frank's Campaign; or, What Boys Can Do on the Farm for the Camp, in 1864.

This copy with ad leaf and Dick standing alone with his boot-blacking box: later issues have image of four street boys. Octavo. About Very Good. 254 pages. and attended Harvard. In his day, Horatio Alger, Jr. (1832-1899) was one of the most-famous authors in America. First edition of Alger's FIRST BOOK. Middle-class American manhood changed in the mid-twentieth century.

“Bootstraps were a typical feature of boots that you could pull on in the act of putting your boots on, but of course bootstraps wouldn’t actually help you pull yourself over anything,” Zimmer told HuffPost. The history of the guitar shows that musical instruments have been gendered—but just how changes over time. Volume three only in the "Luck and Pluck Series.". He employed several pseudonyms to try to spur interest or excitement and raise sales over the years (including Carl Cantab, Arthur Hamilton, Caroline F. Preston, Arthur Lee Putnam, and Julian Starr), and also applied his formula to the lives of famous Americans like Abraham Lincoln and Daniel Webster.


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Segundo de Chomón made “trick films” that experimented with color and temporality, influencing the surrealist work of Luis Buñuel and Salvador Dalí. J.S. 19 (Summer, 1987), pp.

Rooks' book is White Money Black Power: African American Studies and the Crisis of Race in Higher Education. The period between the turn of the century and World War I was when “a Horatio Alger story” became the preferred name for what Moon calls a “male-capitalist Cinderella tale.”, With one exception, Alger’s heroes are boys who are chosen by rich white male patrons who see something special in them and raise them out of the mire. Spine a bit cocked, shallow losses to ends; additional rubbing to extremities; soiling to textblock throughout.

Hardcover. Generally a Very Good copy.

JSTOR Daily readers can access the original research behind our articles for free on JSTOR. Remains usable and attractive. (MORE: Joe Klein on Bill Clinton’s Speech).

Publisher's terra-cotta cloth binding with gilt stamped spine lettering & decorations.

7-1/16" x 4-3/8.". 296 pages. The epitome of this extraordinary accomplishment of the impossible feat of lifting oneself by the bootstraps was the Horatio Alger hero who goes from rags to riches aided by nothing more than honesty and hard work.

); original brown pictorial cloth embossed in black, decorative spine in black and gilt with the mysterious "American News Co." at spine foot; 258pp. Republican Senator Marco Rubio shared the details of his family’s immigration to the United States from Cuba and Democrat Elizabeth Warren talked about her rise from poverty and hardship to a professorship at Harvard Law School. "The Gentle Boy from the Dangerous Classes": Pederasty, Domesticity, and Capitalism in Horatio Alger, How Magazines Created a New Culture of Manhood, When the English Witnessed Battles in the Sky, The Decapitation Experiments of Jean César Legallois, What Bats Can Teach Humans About Coronavirus Immunity, At First, the Guitar Was a “Women’s Instrument”, The Bizarre Marvels of Segundo de Chomón, Father of Spanish Cinema, Furry Livestock, Scary Stories, and Octopus Perception, The Fight to Integrate Philadelphia’s Department Stores. In a famous essay, a scholar uncovered difficult truths about Alger, whose name has been associated with the “rags to riches” myth. Wood-engraved frontispiece and additional pictorial title-page, half-title. This is “a rich man’s fantasy of benevolence and philanthropy.” Alger’s works perpetuate “corporate/capitalist America’s long-cherished myth”: that elite white men “have their eye out for that exceptional, ‘deserving,’ ‘attractive’ underclass youth.”. They all either bootstrapped themselves up the economic ladder or benefitted from the bootstrapping of their parents and grandparents. First Edition. The Young Miner; or, Tom Nelson in California, by Horatio Alger, Jr. (Introduction by John Seelye).

A “Horatio Alger story” is supposed to be a rags-to-riches narrative: Poor boy becomes titan of industry through honest hard work. He moved to New York and remade himself into a phenomenally prolific author and was associated with the “boy charities” of the day.

Alger, in other words, “is known to have seduced boys sexually during at least one period of his career as well as to have actively participated in the reform movement to ‘seduce’ New York street boys away from their milieu into an at least minimally genteel way of life.”.
viii, 248 pp.

Many other books for boys following the same template followed, with titles like Luck and Pluck, Tattered Tom, and Brave and Bold. San Francisco: Printed by Adrian Wilson at his Press in Tuscany Alley, San Francisco for the Book Club of California, 1965. This is particularly true for African Americans who are stuck at the bottom more than any other group and may even to fall farther behind from one generation to the next. (Also includes podcasts, blog posts, an... [more about Latest Catalogs of Rare Books], Our members list new acquisitions and recently cataloged items almost every day of the year.

From Farm Boy to Senator; Being the History of the Boyhood and Manhood of Daniel Webster. Sought-after highlights include his first book of poems and short fiction, Bertha’s Christmas Vision: An Autumn Sheaf (1856) and first editions of Ragged Dick (1868). Below, you'll find a few highlights from these recent additions (many of a seasonal nature)... CINDERELLA b... [more about Weekly Highlights], HBO's latest hit show, "Lovecraft Country" is based on Matt Ruff's 2016 novel of the same name which mines the horror and mythology of H.P. While Michelle Obama, Elizabeth Warren and Chris Christies are all great examples of bootstrapping themselves to the Ivy League and political office, we do have to wonder what story they and their families could tell if they were growing up today. Publisher's purple cloth, covers blocked in blind, spine gilt; spine faded, top of spine rubbed, with some foxing.

Light extremity wear, with one tip just showing board. Alger's first book, published in his 24th year. Many of Alger's works were released in pulp paperback editions from 1900 to 1926. Hardcover. In an influential, ground-breaking essay, scholar Michael Moon shows that this isn’t actually the tale that Horatio Alger, Jr. (1832–99) wrote, rewrote, and retailed successfully for years during the Gilded Age. His writings were characterized by the "rags-to-riches" narrative, which had a formative effect on the United States during the Gilded Age. 87-110.

title page. First edition of Alger's FIRST BOOK.

First hardcover edition, very good in decorated blue cloth.

Representations, No. Check them out in the Street Arts Graphics Collection! Five sequels followed, and the book became Alger’s biggest success.

JSTOR Daily provides context for current events using scholarship found in JSTOR, a digital library of academic journals, books, and other material. Last night at the Democratic Convention, when Bill Clinton joked that every politician wants every voter to believe he grew up in a log cabin he built himself, he was acknowledging in part how hollow and meaningless the metaphor of bootstrapping has become.

Interior contents fresh and clean with very minor scattered toning, mostly marginal. Alger, the son of a unitarian minister was born in Chelsea, Ma. Bertha's Christmas Vision: An Autumn Sheaf (First Editon). New York, 1882. Join our new membership program on Patreon today. Decorative brown cloth stamped in black and gilt.

Rooks is an associate professor at Cornell University. The New Upper Class and the Real Reason We Dislike Them, Who’s Biggest? The Western Boy; or, The Road to Success (First Edition). Trade Paperback. Boston: Loring, Publisher, 1865. The concept of bootstrapping dates back to at least the 1890s, when Horatio Alger wrote novels about boys who worked hard and rose up the social ladder from poverty and is intertwined with that other mythical ideal, the American Dream. The cheap reprints published in the early part of the Twentieth Century are relatively common and inexpensive, but are popular for their vivid covers. His books met with their greatest success in the decades after his death, when cheap editions sold in the millions.

Boston: Loring, Publisher, 1868.

Withal, a pleasing VG+ copy.. 224, [2 (blank)] pp.

He became a prolific author, specialising in rags-to-riches tales. 18 x 12 cm. All Rights Reserved.

All rights reserved. Carleton & Co, 1878].

© ITHAKA.

Loring, who had published Alger’s first juvenile novel, Frank's Campaign; or, What Boys Can Do on the Farm for the Camp, in 1864.

This copy with ad leaf and Dick standing alone with his boot-blacking box: later issues have image of four street boys. Octavo. About Very Good. 254 pages. and attended Harvard. In his day, Horatio Alger, Jr. (1832-1899) was one of the most-famous authors in America. First edition of Alger's FIRST BOOK. Middle-class American manhood changed in the mid-twentieth century.

“Bootstraps were a typical feature of boots that you could pull on in the act of putting your boots on, but of course bootstraps wouldn’t actually help you pull yourself over anything,” Zimmer told HuffPost. The history of the guitar shows that musical instruments have been gendered—but just how changes over time. Volume three only in the "Luck and Pluck Series.". He employed several pseudonyms to try to spur interest or excitement and raise sales over the years (including Carl Cantab, Arthur Hamilton, Caroline F. Preston, Arthur Lee Putnam, and Julian Starr), and also applied his formula to the lives of famous Americans like Abraham Lincoln and Daniel Webster.


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viii, 248 pp. Good. While his books have largely fallen out of print today, everyone is familiar with his main idea, because Horatio Alger, Jr. popularized the “pulling oneself up by the bootstraps” … Politicians love to portray themselves as Horatio Alger characters, but they aren't talking about how social mobility is all but impossible for many these days. Originally published as a serial in the New York Sun, "The Gipsy Nurse; or Marked for Life.". JSTOR is part of ITHAKA, a not-for-profit organization helping the academic community use digital technologies to preserve the scholarly record and to advance research and teaching in sustainable ways. ; Foreword by Ralph D. Gardner, Ragged Dick; or, Street Life in New York with the Boot Blacks, Bertha’s Christmas Vision: An Autumn Sheaf, ABAA ANTIQUARIAN BOOKSELLERS' ASSOCIATION of AMERICA. Alger’s theme is most-often summed up as the “Rags to Riches” story, but some critics caution that “Rags to Respectability” is more accurate, as for characters such as Ragged Dick, the journey is from a precarious life on the street to a respectable middle-class existence with an office job, punctual habits, and a modest bank account. This story was first published serially in "Student and Schoolmate" [Boston], January - December, 1867, and then issued in book format, 1868. The 100 Most Significant Figures in History, Reading Literature Makes Us Smarter and Nicer. GROLIER AMERICAN HUNDRED 75. Alger’s heroes are boys who are chosen by rich white male patrons who see something special in them and raise them out of the mire. As Moon explains of Alger’s formulaic plot lines, “any boy who is reasonably willing to please his potential employers can attain a life of modest comfort” in the expanding white-collar sector of the Gilded Age. Despite his prolific output — he published over 100 books and poems during his lifetime — Alger’s financial situation was often precarious, and his critical reputation ebbed and flowed. Horatio Alger’s American Fable: “The World Before Him” The ideology of success—the notion that anyone could make it with enough hard work—was widely promoted in Gilded Age America.

Segundo de Chomón made “trick films” that experimented with color and temporality, influencing the surrealist work of Luis Buñuel and Salvador Dalí. J.S. 19 (Summer, 1987), pp.

Rooks' book is White Money Black Power: African American Studies and the Crisis of Race in Higher Education. The period between the turn of the century and World War I was when “a Horatio Alger story” became the preferred name for what Moon calls a “male-capitalist Cinderella tale.”, With one exception, Alger’s heroes are boys who are chosen by rich white male patrons who see something special in them and raise them out of the mire. Spine a bit cocked, shallow losses to ends; additional rubbing to extremities; soiling to textblock throughout.

Hardcover. Generally a Very Good copy.

JSTOR Daily readers can access the original research behind our articles for free on JSTOR. Remains usable and attractive. (MORE: Joe Klein on Bill Clinton’s Speech).

Publisher's terra-cotta cloth binding with gilt stamped spine lettering & decorations.

7-1/16" x 4-3/8.". 296 pages. The epitome of this extraordinary accomplishment of the impossible feat of lifting oneself by the bootstraps was the Horatio Alger hero who goes from rags to riches aided by nothing more than honesty and hard work.

); original brown pictorial cloth embossed in black, decorative spine in black and gilt with the mysterious "American News Co." at spine foot; 258pp. Republican Senator Marco Rubio shared the details of his family’s immigration to the United States from Cuba and Democrat Elizabeth Warren talked about her rise from poverty and hardship to a professorship at Harvard Law School. "The Gentle Boy from the Dangerous Classes": Pederasty, Domesticity, and Capitalism in Horatio Alger, How Magazines Created a New Culture of Manhood, When the English Witnessed Battles in the Sky, The Decapitation Experiments of Jean César Legallois, What Bats Can Teach Humans About Coronavirus Immunity, At First, the Guitar Was a “Women’s Instrument”, The Bizarre Marvels of Segundo de Chomón, Father of Spanish Cinema, Furry Livestock, Scary Stories, and Octopus Perception, The Fight to Integrate Philadelphia’s Department Stores. In a famous essay, a scholar uncovered difficult truths about Alger, whose name has been associated with the “rags to riches” myth. Wood-engraved frontispiece and additional pictorial title-page, half-title. This is “a rich man’s fantasy of benevolence and philanthropy.” Alger’s works perpetuate “corporate/capitalist America’s long-cherished myth”: that elite white men “have their eye out for that exceptional, ‘deserving,’ ‘attractive’ underclass youth.”. They all either bootstrapped themselves up the economic ladder or benefitted from the bootstrapping of their parents and grandparents. First Edition. The Young Miner; or, Tom Nelson in California, by Horatio Alger, Jr. (Introduction by John Seelye).

A “Horatio Alger story” is supposed to be a rags-to-riches narrative: Poor boy becomes titan of industry through honest hard work. He moved to New York and remade himself into a phenomenally prolific author and was associated with the “boy charities” of the day.

Alger, in other words, “is known to have seduced boys sexually during at least one period of his career as well as to have actively participated in the reform movement to ‘seduce’ New York street boys away from their milieu into an at least minimally genteel way of life.”.
viii, 248 pp.

Many other books for boys following the same template followed, with titles like Luck and Pluck, Tattered Tom, and Brave and Bold. San Francisco: Printed by Adrian Wilson at his Press in Tuscany Alley, San Francisco for the Book Club of California, 1965. This is particularly true for African Americans who are stuck at the bottom more than any other group and may even to fall farther behind from one generation to the next. (Also includes podcasts, blog posts, an... [more about Latest Catalogs of Rare Books], Our members list new acquisitions and recently cataloged items almost every day of the year.

From Farm Boy to Senator; Being the History of the Boyhood and Manhood of Daniel Webster. Sought-after highlights include his first book of poems and short fiction, Bertha’s Christmas Vision: An Autumn Sheaf (1856) and first editions of Ragged Dick (1868). Below, you'll find a few highlights from these recent additions (many of a seasonal nature)... CINDERELLA b... [more about Weekly Highlights], HBO's latest hit show, "Lovecraft Country" is based on Matt Ruff's 2016 novel of the same name which mines the horror and mythology of H.P. While Michelle Obama, Elizabeth Warren and Chris Christies are all great examples of bootstrapping themselves to the Ivy League and political office, we do have to wonder what story they and their families could tell if they were growing up today. Publisher's purple cloth, covers blocked in blind, spine gilt; spine faded, top of spine rubbed, with some foxing.

Light extremity wear, with one tip just showing board. Alger's first book, published in his 24th year. Many of Alger's works were released in pulp paperback editions from 1900 to 1926. Hardcover. In an influential, ground-breaking essay, scholar Michael Moon shows that this isn’t actually the tale that Horatio Alger, Jr. (1832–99) wrote, rewrote, and retailed successfully for years during the Gilded Age. His writings were characterized by the "rags-to-riches" narrative, which had a formative effect on the United States during the Gilded Age. 87-110.

title page. First edition of Alger's FIRST BOOK.

First hardcover edition, very good in decorated blue cloth.

Representations, No. Check them out in the Street Arts Graphics Collection! Five sequels followed, and the book became Alger’s biggest success.

JSTOR Daily provides context for current events using scholarship found in JSTOR, a digital library of academic journals, books, and other material. Last night at the Democratic Convention, when Bill Clinton joked that every politician wants every voter to believe he grew up in a log cabin he built himself, he was acknowledging in part how hollow and meaningless the metaphor of bootstrapping has become.

Interior contents fresh and clean with very minor scattered toning, mostly marginal. Alger, the son of a unitarian minister was born in Chelsea, Ma. Bertha's Christmas Vision: An Autumn Sheaf (First Editon). New York, 1882. Join our new membership program on Patreon today. Decorative brown cloth stamped in black and gilt.

Rooks is an associate professor at Cornell University. The New Upper Class and the Real Reason We Dislike Them, Who’s Biggest? The Western Boy; or, The Road to Success (First Edition). Trade Paperback. Boston: Loring, Publisher, 1865. The concept of bootstrapping dates back to at least the 1890s, when Horatio Alger wrote novels about boys who worked hard and rose up the social ladder from poverty and is intertwined with that other mythical ideal, the American Dream. The cheap reprints published in the early part of the Twentieth Century are relatively common and inexpensive, but are popular for their vivid covers. His books met with their greatest success in the decades after his death, when cheap editions sold in the millions.

Boston: Loring, Publisher, 1868.

Withal, a pleasing VG+ copy.. 224, [2 (blank)] pp.

He became a prolific author, specialising in rags-to-riches tales. 18 x 12 cm. All Rights Reserved.

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Loring, who had published Alger’s first juvenile novel, Frank's Campaign; or, What Boys Can Do on the Farm for the Camp, in 1864.

This copy with ad leaf and Dick standing alone with his boot-blacking box: later issues have image of four street boys. Octavo. About Very Good. 254 pages. and attended Harvard. In his day, Horatio Alger, Jr. (1832-1899) was one of the most-famous authors in America. First edition of Alger's FIRST BOOK. Middle-class American manhood changed in the mid-twentieth century.

“Bootstraps were a typical feature of boots that you could pull on in the act of putting your boots on, but of course bootstraps wouldn’t actually help you pull yourself over anything,” Zimmer told HuffPost. The history of the guitar shows that musical instruments have been gendered—but just how changes over time. Volume three only in the "Luck and Pluck Series.". He employed several pseudonyms to try to spur interest or excitement and raise sales over the years (including Carl Cantab, Arthur Hamilton, Caroline F. Preston, Arthur Lee Putnam, and Julian Starr), and also applied his formula to the lives of famous Americans like Abraham Lincoln and Daniel Webster.


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