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Self-Made
The Stories that Forged an American Myth
Pamela Walker Laird
2025
Cambridge University Press
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The Men Who Made America’s Self-Made Man
A new myth appeared during the presidential campaign of Andrew Jackson.
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Pamela Walker Laird
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November 11, 2025
