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Andrew Carnegie / by David Nasaw.

Andrew Carnegie / by David Nasaw.
Andrew Carnegie /
Born of modest origins in Scotland in 1835, Andrew Carnegie is best known as the founder of Carnegie Steel ... 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.

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Adult Non-Fiction   Wauchope . Available .  
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Record Number 606603
ISBN 9780143112440
1594201048
Author Nasaw, David
Title Andrew Carnegie / by David Nasaw.
Publication details New York : Penguin Books, 2007.
Pagination etc. xvi, 878 p., [32] p. of plates : ill., ports.
Summary Note Born of modest origins in Scotland in 1835, Andrew Carnegie is best known as the founder of Carnegie Steel ... 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.
Subject Carnegie, Andrew, -- 1835-1919
Industrialists -- United States -- Biography
Philanthropists -- United States -- Biography
Biography and autobiography
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