John swansburg states that "industry, frugality, a penchant for self-improvement—which set him apart from the ne’er-do-wells and confidence men who populate his adventures in the streets of New York. But these attributes merely qualify the Alger hero for success; they don’t produce it."
Cara Erdheim talks of how “Alger traced the rise of his boy heroes from penury to middle-class respectability.”
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