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“Dick is . . . smart enough to profit from the book’s simple messages: that all labor is respectable, that poverty is no bar to advancement, that getting ahead requires education and saving one’s money.” Page 4.

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“The Carter’s Grove [pictured above], Sabine Hall, and Shirley plantations of the Carters, the Westover of the Byrds, the Stratford of the Lees and the Mount Vernons left no doubt that their owners were masters of large fortunes.” Page 23.

“Lincoln joked that he had not a platform to stand on, whereupon someone brought him an empty dry-goods box.” Page 39.

“Solving the travelling salesman problem [pictured left] turns out to be crucially important in keeping costs down.” Page 102.

“[Self-driving] vehicles rely on Google Maps and Street View as well as radar and video messages that are fed into a computer, and have been said to provide a safer drive than any a human driver could provide.” Page 104.

“In one well-known family, then, the daughter represented not merely an r of 0.5, but a sum of 2.5 over only three generations.” Page 152.

“A costumed Knight of the Swan challenged the Knight of the Golden Lion to battle.” Page 183. Photo: “The Challenge, Eglinton Tournament,” by James Henry Nixon.

“[Booker T. Washington] never attended school, though he sometimes went as far as the schoolhouse door with his white mistresses, carrying their books.” Page 187.

“‘I can see ye don’t know what it means to be up to yer neck in nuns.’” Page 206. Photo: Graduation at St. Joseph’s School, Petersburg VA.

“He begins as a ‘greenhorn,’ unable to speak English, but soon finds himself selling hardware from a pushcart on the lower East Side.” Page 232. Photo: Mulberry Street, New York City.