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1006399
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b760769
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Decker, Jeffrey Louis.
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| Title & Author
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Made in America : : self-styled success from Horatio Alger to Oprah Winfrey /\ Jeffrey Louis Decker.
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| Publication Statement
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Minneapolis :: University of Minnesota Press,, ©1997.
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xxix, 170 pages ;; 24 cm
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| ISBN
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0816630208
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: 0816630216
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: 9780816630202
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: 9780816630219
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 135-159) and index.
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| Contents
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Introduction. The rise of the self-made man and the triumph of U.S. nationalism -- From character to personality to image -- Multicultural narratives of uplift in twentieth-century America -- Class mobility. Moral luck and the Horatio Alger formula: Andrew Carnegie -- Hard luck: John McLuckie -- The limits of luck: James J. Davis -- Gender stability. Troubling the Horatio Alger formula: Tattered Tom -- True womanhood in the market: Harriet Hubbard Ayer -- Domesticating business: the "Emma McChesney" trilogy -- Racial segregation. The political economy of a lynch mob: Tom Moss, Calvin McDowell, and Henry Stewart -- Free enterprise: Booker T. Washington -- Working wonders: Madam C.J. Walker -- Immigrant aspirations. Out of America: Marcus Garvey -- From steerage to self-culture: Mary Antin -- Oriental Yankees: Younghill Kang -- Individual enterprise in the postfrontier nation. Not-quite-white enterprise in the tribal twenties: The great Gatsby -- Inventing the American dream in the Great Depression: The epic of America -- The ends of self-making. Image, inc.: Howard Hughes, Lee Iacocca, and Ross Perot -- Downsizing: Susan Powter and Oprah Winfrey -- Epilogue: the return of the self-made man.
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The author analyzes the autobiographical expressions of famous entrepreneurs, from Andrew Carnegie to Ross Perot, alongside more marginal ones, such as Oprah Winfrey and Arnold Schwarzenegger, to examine how mainstream society was and is shaped by the cultures of subordinate groups. He looks at the link between self-making and nation-building and reveals the origins of a persistent myth of the 'American dream'. Made in America presents 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. Decker locates the new breed of entrepreneurs within the changing rhetoric of personal success, which shifted its emphasis over the past century from religious 'character' to psychological 'personality' to celebrity 'image'. The book concludes by surveying the life stories of enterprising celebrities such as Oprah Winfrey and Arnold Schwarzenegger.
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University of South Alabama
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Success-- United States-- History.
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Succès-- États-Unis-- Histoire.
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Berühmte Persönlichkeit
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Biografie
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Erfolg
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Geschichte
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Gesellschaft
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identité nationale-- réussite sociale-- Etats-Unis-- 19e s. (2e moitié)-- 20e s.
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identité nationale-- self-made-man-- Etats-Unis-- 19e s. (2e moitié)-- 20e s.
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Success-- United States-- History.
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Success.
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Nationale kenmerken.
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Succes.
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United States.
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USA.
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| Dewey Classification
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302/.14/0973
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| LC Classification
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BJ1611.D36 1997
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302.140973sdnb
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71.50bcl
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MS 1360rvk
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