Today is the birthday of that amazing American literary phenomenon Horatio Alger (1832-1899). I find his death date fitting, almost as though he knew he wasn’t meant to exist for even a minute in the 20th century, when his bootstraps philosophy would find itself almost constantly on the defensive. While, like everyone else, I knew Alger’s [...]
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 09:40AM on January 13, 2013