His story presents a different vision of the possibilities for a free-market system grounded in traditional values. Retail magnate Frederik Gerhard Hendrik Meijer is one such person and in Fred Meijer: Stories of His Life his pleasantly old-fangled (but never out-of-fashion) beliefs and admirable deeds are celebrated by those who have known the man. It will be remembered that Alger (1832–1899) entertained American readers of the nineteenth century with hope-engendering novels telling how the poorest slum-born boy was capable of rising to great heights, in terms of wealth and the much-deserved love of his fellow men, through gritty determination, square-dealing, thrift, and much hard work.įashionably sneered at today by the kept iconoclasts of the faculty lounge, the Horatio-Alger hero can still be encountered today. Eerdmans Publishing Company (Grand Rapids, Mich.)Īt a time in American history when successful businessmen are widely viewed with disdain-as selfish plutocrats divorced from any moral sense and interested only in feathering their own nests with wealth beyond the dreams of avarice-it is refreshing to read about a successful entrepreneur whose life reads in large part like something out of Horatio Alger.
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