all the way to being entirely present in highest political office in the United States. The rags-to-riches myth—based on a misinterpretation of, for instance, Horatio Alger’s novels—is alive and well and is used to sell everything from a product to a political character.

traced the cocreation of religion and sales in ostensibly secular parts of American life since Jefferson. The movement was never a monolith, was hotly contested at times, but was, most importantly, highly influential—

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