Self-Made
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Self-Made
The Stories That Forged an American Myth
Laird, Pamela Walker
Cambridge University Press
10/2025
360
Dura
Inglês
9781108833899
15 a 20 dias
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Preface; A word about words; Introduction: Challenging the myth of self-made success; 1. A new world of ambition and judgment; 2. Self-improvement for the common good in the eighteenth century; 3. Work and merit in a new republic; 4. The politics of self-making in a self-made nation; 5. Forging origins in antebellum stories; 6. Character and money in mid-century; 7. Gilded age heroes; 8. Competing stories of self-help before 1936; 9. Stories against the New Deal; 10. Targeting the common good, 1950-2000; 11. The myth's twenty-first-century victories.
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Preface; A word about words; Introduction: Challenging the myth of self-made success; 1. A new world of ambition and judgment; 2. Self-improvement for the common good in the eighteenth century; 3. Work and merit in a new republic; 4. The politics of self-making in a self-made nation; 5. Forging origins in antebellum stories; 6. Character and money in mid-century; 7. Gilded age heroes; 8. Competing stories of self-help before 1936; 9. Stories against the New Deal; 10. Targeting the common good, 1950-2000; 11. The myth's twenty-first-century victories.
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