Those invested in the ideology of self-sufficiency and individualism prolonged suffering ... in the form of the bootstrap narrative—the myth that anyone can prosper if only they work hard ...

In a new book, "The Roots of American Individualism: Political Myth in the Age of Jackson," Alex Zakaras, Ph.D., professor in the UVM Department of Political Science, argues this point ...

The first concerns the degree to which the myth of self-reliance is true ... societies may shift the burden of placement-seeking to the individual. In “achievement” societies, people compete ...

But rugged individualism, like many of the stories Jim Bridger told, is a myth. And it’s a myth that damages so many relationships. Jim Bridger was able to be viewed as a stoic mountain man ...

The culture of toxic individualism has deep roots. A good piece of it is tied to the cultural legacy of manifest destiny and the settlement of the West: the myth of the up-by-the-bootstraps ...

Cattle ranching was one of its major industries. Through the Democratic Party, the oligarchs gained traction North and South with the myth of the cowboy individualist. Richardson writes ...

Although Americans embraced these notions as self-evident truths, they were in fact idealized stories of a country whose people, economic institutions, and enormous tracts of land made it uniquely ...

To him, Americans seem to have confused individualism with anti-statism ... It’s that America’s culture of self-reliance is a bit of a myth—and that as a policy goal, fostering total ...

Part memoir, part manifesto, No One is Self-Made dismantles the myth of individualism in business, reminding us that behind every success story is a network of people contributing to the journey.

The first concerns the degree to which the myth of self-reliance is true ... societies may shift the burden of placement-seeking to the individual. In “achievement” societies, people compete ...