Saving Horatio Alger : Equality, Opportunity, and the American Dream.
Americans celebrate the Horatio Alger ideal, that all individuals can succeed by their own efforts in a level playing field, yet social mobility rates in America are now lower than those in Europe, risking America becoming an ossified, class-based society. Richard Reeves argues in this Brookings Ess...
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| Online Access: | Electronic book from JSTOR |
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
| Published: | Brookings Institution Press, 2014. |
| Series: | Brookings Essay.
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