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the American dream: "A century later, Benjamin Franklin added to this ethic the idea of a disciplined life. In his posthumous AUTOBIOGRAPHY (1818), he revealed his boyhood program for personal advancement from utmost poverty to personal stature: a highly regimented day devoted to self-improvement through study, hard work, and the cultivation of social qualities. His outline quickly became the paradigm for social progress for millions of Americans, and in the 20th century F. Scott Fitzgerald used it anew in THE GREAT GATSBY (1925) as the protagonist's program for rising in the world." gostei da lista, é verdade.

"F. Scott Fitzgerald, (1896-1940), was the leading writer of America's Jazz Age, the Roaring Twenties, and one of its glittering heroes." (daqui)