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by Wallace Boston (Introduction by), Wallace Boston (Editor), Horatio Alger (Author)
The protagonists in Horatio Alger stories are often, if one may play on a metaphor, up a creek without a paddle. In this celebrated Alger novel, the young hero is comfortably ensconced at the Essex Classical Institute until misfortune makes his expensive education impossible. If the problem of financing an education resonates, it is because millions of Americans are frustrated in their ambitions because they now find that the price of education has soared far beyond their capacity to pay, with no prospect of an Alger quirk of fate to help.
Author Biography
Dr. Wallace Boston is President of the American Public University System and a member of the Board of Overseers of the University of Pennsylvania's Graduate School of Education. He earned an A.B. degree in History from Duke University, an MBA in Marketing and Accounting from Tulane University's Freeman School of Business Administration, and a Doctorate in Higher Education Management from the University of Pennsylvania's Graduate School of Education.
