Helping Himself, or Grant Thornton’s Ambition deals with the grit and determination of Grant, a 15 year old farmer’s boy whose father is dead and in order to pay his minister father’s debts, and to help his mother deal with their abject poverty young Grant postpones his college education to take a job as a Wall Street broker’s clerk. The first step is to deal with the avaricious and greedy man who is keeping them from obtaining the meager amount due them and which will at least allow them to eat. Grant’s wits, pluck and sheer determination are tested time and time again and each time he rises to the occasion. Read of his struggle to feed his mother and himself and then to rise in the world despite great odds. I can say with great confidence that in the end, he might succeed!
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