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09/25/2007: "People's champions are deceptive"

Horatio Alger, Jr.

Apparently, the author of more than 120 "rags-to-riches" books featuring hard-working, highly moral young heroes was also an admitted pederast.

Before finding success as an author, Alger was a minister at a Unitarian Church in Brewster, Massachusetts, where he was accused of sexually assaulting two young boys. Alger admitted his guilt, but left town before the news hit the street.

Later, he wound up in New York City, where he penned hundreds of best-selling books for and about young boys, which went on to grace the shelves of homes, schools and church libraries across America.

[ Anonymous morality is important for integral character, but the loud defenders of morality are often up to no good: they like to conceal their failures in an acceptable façade. ]

http://www.cnn.com/2007/LIVING/worklife/09/25/mf.plot.twists/index.html