Horatio Alger and the American Dream

Fred Trump lived it. Is it still true?

During the American Gilded Age (1870-1900), in which industrialists dominated the American economic and political scene far more than presidents, novelist Horatio Alger wrote books popular with boys and young men, that offered a message: No matter how impoverished or underprivileged, a boy through hard work, industry, and taking advantage of the country…