From the Jacket Flap: "The Algers are probably the most popular books ever produced in America. Not so very long ago, every boy in the country was an avid reader of Alger books, eagerly searching for 'new ones,' begging, borrowing, swapping them. Who doesn't remember the wonderful warm glow, the magic spell of these stories, the ineffable pleasure of getting off into a corner, or behind the barn with a fresh new Alger book...."