Chester Rand The New Path to Fortune Author:Horatio Alger In this exciting story of Chester Rand, a courageous boy in a country grocery store - has a talent for illustrating - and is hired on at 16 as a newspaper artist. From there his life story is full of excitement and wonder - follow this story of personal success of an artist - from the master of personal growth Horatio Alger. A real page turner... more » too! Alger wrote to instill the principle of Strive and Succeed, Personal Growth and Achievement-to attain the American dream. He inspired countless millions of young people world-wide and was the Mark Victor Hanson and Tony Robbins of his era. "Horatio Alger Jr. was the biggest American media star of his day. [when] the sale of 10,000 volumes was deemed a publishing triumph in those days-readers bought at least 200 million copies of his books, placing him in the Stephen King category"...Stefan Kanfer« less