Publisher's Synopsis
Do and Dare - a Brave Boy's Fight for Fortune shows how bad decisions can lead to bad consequences. Herbert Carr is a great role model; honest, loyal, and hardworking. Do and Dare is part of a series of rags to riches stories of boys working hard and achieving the American dream of wealth. The stories can be seen as tracing American cultural and social patterns. Horatio Alger, Jr. authored about seventy books. He was the son of a clergyman, graduated from Harvard. His stories are pure, inspiring and as endearing today as they were when first published.
