Meaning only to compile the best advice books for young men, the Boston physician and educator William Alcott ended up writing his own. He counsels the youth of the 1830s on industry, punctuality, debt, reading, amusements, the company of women and choosing a wife, and he campaigns hard against drink and tobacco. Its medicine and morals are entirely of their time.
A vivid window on the ideals of Jacksonian America, and a cousin of Bronson Alcott speaking in his own voice. Download the free EPUB.