1. Horatio Alger captured this spirit in hundreds of stories.

2. His is a veritable Horatio Alger story with a tragic finish.

3. Cai says his Horatio Alger story is “typical of Wenzhou.

4. Before telling me his Horatio Alger story, though, he had something he wanted me to understand.

5. That quintessentially American narrative, the Horatio Alger tale, makes the opposite case: With diligence and hard work, anyone can climb to the top.

6. To an earlier generation, Clinton and Dole would have been considered men in the Horatio Alger tradition.

7. The annual release of the Forbes 400 list of Richest Americans has become an important part of the country's Horatio Alger faith.

8. Millard Fillmore's rise to the presidency reads like a Horatio Alger tale.