Apostles of the self-made man
Subtitle: changing concepts of success in America
By: by John G. Cawelti
Series: Phoenix book -- P292
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 1968
Place of publication: Chicago
Language: eng
Number of pages: 279
Subjects: Success; Philosophy; History
Other titles: Changing concepts of success in America
Notes: Originated as thesis, University of Iowa.

Second impression, 1968.

"Bibliographical notes": p. 259-271.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: the meaning of the self-made man; title: Natural aristocracy and the new republic: the idea of mobility in the thought of Franklin and Jefferson; title: The age of the self-made man; title: Self-improvement and self-culture: Ralph Waldo Emerson; title: From rags to respectability: Horatio Alger; title: The self-made man and industrial America: the portrayal of mobility in the nineteenth-century novel; title: Philosophers of success; title: Dream or rat race: success in the twentieth century; title: Individual success and the community: John Dewey's philosophy of success; title: Notes.