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The Horatio Alger Association has compiled information about its scholars for almost 30 years.
Membership in the Association is made up solely of recipients of the Horatio Alger Award.
There's a precedent for this line of thinking, to which any Horatio Alger fan can attest.
More than 680 individuals have received the Horatio Alger Award since the Association was established in 1947.
All of the classic Horatio Alger traits of hard work, thrift and enterprise come into play here.
In honor of the world's self-made billionaires, we're recounting 10 of our favorite real-life Horatio Alger tales.
For example, the brief appearance of Bill Gates evokes our Horatio Alger myth of success and the American dream.
In his letter, Cooperman detailed a Horatio Alger biography that has made him an avatar for the new super-rich.
Consider the classic Horatio Alger rags-to-riches story: Redemption was found through financial gain.
Members of the Horatio Alger Association are dedicated to promoting education and free-enterprise as the means for a better future.
Rather than create more entrepreneurs, the Horatio Alger stories mostly helped fuel the emergence of new labor and middle classes.
It isn't surprising that India produces few Horatio Alger stories or stirring illustrations of business dynamism in the free market.
It is a classic only-in-America saga, straight out of Horatio Alger.
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In 2009, with the formation of the Horatio Alger Association of Canada, the Association extended it mission to include outreach to citizens and students in Canada.
This means that the success of the Horatio Alger program can be replicated, providing a blue-print for additional efforts to change the destiny of at-risk kids everywhere.
It was brought over by the reformed Calvinists, made practical by Benjamin Franklin, noticed by Tocqueville, defined by Max Weber and put into the popular culture by Horatio Alger and others.
Dr. Wolniak and his team at NORC were commissioned by the Horatio Alger Association of Distinguished Americans (HAA) in 2010 to advance the understanding of resilience among HAA Scholars and among at-risk youth generally.
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Although she kills them by accident, Dorothy is much more of an American pragmatist and problem-solver a Horatio Alger with a pair of magic shoes than, say, Lewis Carroll's Alice, who mainly wanders about Wonderland eating and drinking things.
In the second tier, the hustler class of new-money industrialists produced a first generation of Robber Barons, and then an asymmetric balance of power between bankers and second-generation hustlers who aspired to Robber Baron level fortunes (egged on by Horatio Alger narratives), but ended up as the tame new middle class.
It was brought over by the reformed Calvinists in the 1600s, made secular and practical by Benjamin Franklin, expressed as the "Pursuit of Happiness" by Thomas Jefferson in the Declaration of Independence, noticed by Alexis de Tocqueville, defined by Max Weber and written into the popular culture by Horatio Alger and others.
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