Quotes About Alger

The more I researched Alger, the more I believed "bootstrapping" was a story line emerging out of the ashes of Alger's own personal shame for his pedophilia and the trauma he inflicted on others. His life story morphed from his longing for young boys into the ultimate story of young boys' exerting mastery over the adults and the world around them, perhaps his own identification with his powerless victims.

Earlier that year, at the hundredth anniversary of his Harvard club, a member was talking about the spirit of Harvard College and saying how glad he was that the school had produced neither "a Joseph McCarthy or an Alger Hiss." On hearing that coupling, Kennedy jumped from his chair. "How dare you compare the name of a great American patriot with that of a traitor!" and left the room. As for his father, the very thought