C.I. Scofield: God’s Self-Made Man

In his classic book The Self-Made Man in America (1954), the University of Wisconsin historian Irvin G. Wyllie declared that “no questions have been more central and none have been answered more confidently” by Americans in their history than “What makes a man?” The collective American response for some 250 years has been that meritocracy—the “myth of rags to riches”—is a real thing. “The legendary hero of America is the self-made man,” Wyllie declared. From Benjamin Franklin to P.T. Barnum, the self-made man “represents our most cherished conceptions of success”—this last word the “principle American aspiration” expressed “in a single word.” Read Full Article »