An edition of Apostles of the self-made man
(1965)
Apostles of the self-made man
changing concepts of success in America
by John G. Cawelti
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Apostles of the self-made man: changing concepts of success in America
1968, University of Chicago Press
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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.
Edition Notes
Originated as thesis, University of Iowa.
Second impression, 1968.
"Bibliographical notes": p. 259-271.
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