CHAPTER I.
The first pair of shoes.
From a small and rudely-built log-cabin a sturdy boy
of four years issued, and looked earnestly across
the clearing to the pathway that led through the surrounding
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Horatio Alger (1832-1899) was the American author of prodigiously popular and influential juvenile novels and biographies.Horatio Alger was born in Revere, Mass., the son of a Unitarian minister. The ...
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Perhaps the quality which has been most closely identified with the American spirit is success. Success--upward mobility, material prosperity acquired through hard work and shrewd ability--has been fo...
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From Canal Boy to President
Horatio Alger
Horatio Alger, Jr.