Bibliograph

Apostles of the self-made man, by John G. Cawelti

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Apostles of the self-made man, by John G. Cawelti

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 259-271) and index

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Apostles of the self-made man

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

29741541

Responsibility statement

by John G. Cawelti

Table Of Contents

Introduction: the meaning of the self-made man -- Natural aristocracy and the new republic: the idea of mobility in the thought of Franklin and Jefferson -- The age of the self-made man -- Self-improvement and self-culture: Ralph Waldo Emerson -- From rags to respectability: Horatio Alger -- The self-made man and industrial America: the portrayal of mobility in the nineteenth-century novel -- Philosophers of success -- Dream or rat race: success in the twentieth century -- Individual success and the community: John Dewey's philosophy of success -- Notes

resource.variantTitle

Changing concepts of success in America

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