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Ragged Clarence

or, Sweet Life in Washington With the Bootstraps

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Jul 10, 2023
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Clippings via my tweep The Tennessee Holler. I couldn’t stop thinking about how like one of Alger’s stories (like Ragged Dick, or, Street Life With the Boot Blacks, 1868) Thomas’s life was, that of the hardworking boy with the serious moral code and the awful economic deprivation of high capitalism, whose qualities are eventually recognized and rewarde…

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