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George Santos and the great American tradition of "self-making"

It's Been a Minute

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The American Dream: A Self-Making Journey

The genesis of American self-making had this sort of wonderful idealistic quality. You find it, for example, in Frederick Douglass's speeches about the self-made man. And somehow over the past few centuries, that sort of changed and shifted slightly into you kind of deserve the life you dream of.

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