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En Biografia e Historia el 2009.06.01

Alger, Horatio Jr. (1832-1899). Horatio Alger tuvo una gran fama como escritor de ficción para niños durante las útimas décadas del siglo xix. Sus cuentos sobre jóvenes huérfanos y niños de la calle Scrappy que se sobrepusieron a la pobreza, ganaron relevancia entre los norteamericanos de su generación. Se convirtió en un verdadero símbolo del sueño americano, del capitalismo y del éxito financiero personal, en un...

En Colombia el 2009.01.18

Philip Freneau (1752-1832), the "Poet of the American Revolution," was also (in F. O. Matthiessen's words) "the first American to think of himself as a professional poet." Freneau hobnobbed with presidents. He roomed with James Madison at Princeton University and would later bring his silver tongue to bear on the side of Madison and Thomas Jefferson in their ideological disputes with Alexander Hamilton. The poet fought in the Revolutionary War, and in 1780 he was captured by the...