-----Original Message----- From: Joy Matkowski [mailto:
jmatkowski1@comcast.net]
Would Horatio Algers be
anti-proletarian novels?
Hard work and (at least as much)
pluck displayed in the right place and time cause poor boys
to become rich men, largely thanks to grateful captains of
industry. You could say that Alger wouldn't've been too
comfortable publishing in THE MASSES. Now, Agnes Smedley (and
DAUGHTER OF EARTH)...or Jack London, for that matter...
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