# Ragged Dick

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- Book: [Ragged Dick](https://www.bookquiver.com/horatio-alger-jr/ragged-dick) ([Ragged Dick.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/horatio-alger-jr/ragged-dick.md))
- Authors: [Horatio Alger](https://www.bookquiver.com/horatio-alger-jr), [David K. Shipler](https://www.bookquiver.com/david-k-shipler)
- Publisher: modern_library
- ISBN: 978-08-1297-358-7
- Pages: 192
- Published: 2005-09-13
- Language: en_US
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

“[Alger] was an utterly American artist . . . and the truth of his books is the truth of the power of the wish. . . . Alger was perhaps American capitalism’s greatest and most effective propagandist.”–Richard...