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It's probably not a real story, The American Magazine published a great deal of morality tale fiction anonymously -- mostly aimed at a female audience -- and th
by huxley 14y ago
It's probably not a real story, The American Magazine published a great deal of morality tale fiction anonymously -- mostly aimed at a female audience -- and this sounds a lot like one of those "just-so-stories" about a man that brings his family to ruination (though usually it was demon alcohol or pool halls).
- mikecane 14y agoOh, AM also published a great many profiles of real people too. I set up a separate blog to highlight those: http://ipeopleblog.wordpress.com/ http://ipeopleblog.wordpress.com/
- huxley 14y agoThat's pretty neat, thanks for collecting all of those. I've spent hundreds of hours reading newspapers from that period for a historical novel I've been working on for a long while. It's equally fascinating to see the parallels and the divergences in our culture.
- loceng 14y agoAny way to get updates relating to your novel?
- vijayr 14y agoIt's useful and well written article - even if the story is fiction, we can take away something from it.
- hollerith 14y agoThanks for pointing that out. I had been assuming it was factual.
- xsmasher 14y agoThe "Square D" company mentioned is real; in fact your circuit breaker box probably has a [D] logo in or on it. That doesn't prove the truth of the rest of the story, of course.
- wedmondson 14y agoMany of today's most popular business books are written in this fashion. I believe the style is called "business parable". A couple popular titles from recent years are "The Five Dysfunctions of a Team" and "Who Moved My Cheese". I would not be so worried about the actual source of the story. The principles are still the same. At one point in my life I was very much like this individual but not now...while the story may be fiction my life is not :)
- achille 14y agoI personally found it hard to believe. This fellow seems smart, but was foolish enough to leave college and a promised job at a Bank to work at a hardware store. He did so during a social visit at his friend's family for "moral support" against the family's push for the hardware store job? .