Horatio Alger is a writer people talk about as though they’ve read him without ever actually reading him. I am guilty of this. We think we know what a Horatio Alger story” is, but few of us have first hand experience. So I picked up a copy of Ragged Dick or Street Life in New York with the Boot Blacks at a used book store … Continue reading Ragged Dick or Street Life in New York with the Boot Blacks by Horatio Alger