I’m sure for you generation X, Y and Zers, the name Horatio Alger, a strange one to your ears no doubt, doesn’t ring any bells. That’s unfortunate, because his message to young people is sorely needed today. Alger was a prolific author of dime-store novels, as they were called, in the mid to late 19th Century; his name became synonymous with up by the bootstraps overcoming the odds success.

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