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Made in America : Self-Styled Success from Horatio Alger to Oprah Winfrey.
Presenting the first look at self-made men and women from a multicultural perspective, Jeffrey Louis Decker discusses the emergence of self-starters like Andrew Carnegie, Booker T. Washington, Madam C.J. Walker, and Lee Iacocca in relation to the changing consumer markets of the twentieth century.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Minneapolis :
University of Minnesota Press,
1997.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1 Class Mobility; 2 Gender Stability; 3 Racial Segregation; 4 Immigrant Aspirations; 5 Individual Enterprise in the Postfrontier Nation; 6 The Ends of Self-Making; Epilogue: The Return of the Self-Made Man; Notes; Index.