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- W184511844 abstract "America's current patterns of wealth, income distribution, and social mobility are product of earlier trends as well as contemporary influences. Even a swift glance at historical background will show how equality and opportunity have increased or diminished- or remained intact - over course of time. Pre-Civil War popular perceptions of America's distribution of worldly goods were shaped primarily by a small number of articulate commentators; by far most influential was Frenchman Alexis de Tocqueville. In opening sentence of his universally acclaimed Democracy in America, first part of which was published in 1835, Tocqueville reported that nothing struck him more forcibly than the general equality of condition among people; this was the fundamental fact from which all others seem to be derived. Supplementing this general equality, which he believed to exclude only blacks, recently arrived Irish immigrants, and individuals who were lacking in industry and sobriety, was an equality of opportunity that awarded every manner of success to individuals on basis of ability and diligence rather than inherited advantages. Scratch a rich American, said Tocqueville, and you will find a poor boy. Henry Clay spoke for many of his countrymen when he observed that wealthy businessmen of his acquaintance were self-made men. And because commoners in New World supposedly had access to wealth and status not dreamed of by their European counterparts, they were said to wield a power over government and society similar (in Tocqueville's phrase) to the power of Deity over universe. Fortified later in century by inspirational novels of" @default.
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- W184511844 title "Equality and Opportunity in America, 1800-1940." @default.
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