Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1 Class Mobility; 2 Gender Stability; 3 Racial Segregation; 4 Immigrant Aspirations; 5 Individual Enterprise in the Postfrontier Nation; 6 The Ends of Self-Making; Epilogue: The Return of the Self-Made Man; Notes; Index
Summary
Presenting the first look at self-made men and women from a multicultural perspective, Jeffrey Louis Decker discusses the emergence of self-starters like Andrew Carnegie, Booker T. Washington, Madam C.J. Walker, and Lee Iacocca in relation to the changing consumer markets of the twentieth century
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 135-159) and index
