| Description |
xvi, 878 p. : ill. ; 22 cm. |
| Summary |
Born of modest origins in Scotland in 1835, Andrew Carnegie is best known as the founder of Carnegie Steel. His rags to riches story has never been told as dramatically and vividly as in Nasaw's new biography. Carnegie, the son of an impoverished linen weaver, moved to Pittsburgh at the age of thirteen. The embodiment of the American dream, he pulled himself up from bobbin boy in a cotton factory to become the richest man in the world. He spent the rest of his life giving away the fortune he had accumulated and crusading for international peace. For all that he accomplished and came to represent to the American public—a wildly successful businessman and capitalist, a self-educated writer, peace activist, philanthropist, man of letters, lover of culture, and unabashed enthusiast for American democracy and capitalism—Carnegie has remained, to this day, an enigma. |
| Note |
Originally published: New York : Penguin Press, 2006. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (p. [842]-850) and index. |
| Subject |
Carnegie, Andrew, 1835-1919.
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Industrialists -- United States -- Biography.
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Philanthropists -- United States -- Biography.
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| ISBN |
9780143112440 (pbk.) |
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