Americans Love a Rags-to-Riches Story -- Especially If the Rags Are Versace

Paris Hilton: "I worked hard for all this. I tell girls that if you basically work hard all your dreams will come true."

George W. Bush: "I inherited half my father's friends and all his enemies."

So -- why are we falling for these fake Horatio Alger stories?  Perhaps because over the past 20 years, class mobility in the United States has increasingly become a myth itself.

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