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Author Nasaw, David.

Title Andrew Carnegie / David Nasaw.

Publication Info. New York : Penguin Press, 2006.

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 Avon Free Public Library - Adult Department  92 CARNEGIE    Check Shelf
 Berlin-Peck Memorial Library - Biographies  92 BIOGRAPHY CARNEGIE    Check Shelf
 Bloomfield, Prosser Library - Adult Department  BIOG. CARNEGIE, A.    Storage
 Bristol, Main Library - Non Fiction  B CARNEGIE, ANDREW    Check Shelf
 Bristol, Manross Branch - Non Fiction  B CARNEGIE    Check Shelf
 Burlington Public Library - Adult Department  B CARNEGIE    Check Shelf
 Cheshire Public Library - Adult Department Lower Level  BIOGRAPHY CARNEGIE    Check Shelf
 Colchester, Cragin Memorial Library - Adult Department  BIOGRAPHY CARNEGIE, ANDREW    Check Shelf
 East Windsor, Library Association of Warehouse Point - Adult Department  B CARNEGIE NAS    Check Shelf
 Enfield, Main Library - Biographies  B CARNEGIE    Check Shelf

Description xiv, 878 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages [842]-850) and index.
Contents Introduction -- 1. Dunfermline, 1835-1848 -- 2. To America, 1848-1855 -- 3. Upward bound, 1853-1859 -- 4. War and riches, 1860-1865 -- 5. Branching out, 1865-1866 -- 6. A man of energy, 1867-1868 -- 7. "Mr. Carnegie is now 35 years of age, and is said to be worth one million of dollars," 1870-1872 -- 8. "All my eggs in one basket," 1872-1875 -- 9. Driving the bandwagon, 1875-1878 -- 10. Round the world, 1878-1881 -- 11. Making a name, 1881-1883 -- 12. Mr. Spencer and Mr. Arnold, 1882-1884 -- 13. "The star-spangled Scotchman," 1884 -- 14. Booms and busts, 1883-1885 -- 15. The "millionaire socialist," 1885-1886 -- 16. Things fall apart, 1886-1887 -- 17. A wedding and a honeymoon, 1887 -- 18. The Pinkertons and "Braddock's battlefield," 1887-1888 -- 19. Friends in high places, 1888-1889 -- 20. The gospels of Andrew Carnegie, 1889-1892 -- 21. Surrender at Homestead, 1889-1890 -- 22. "There will never be a better time than now to fight it out," 1890-1891 -- 23. The battle for Homestead, 1892 -- 24. Loch Rannoch, the Summer of 1892 --
25. Aftermaths, 1892-1894 -- 26. "Be of good cheer - we will be over it soon, 1893-1895 -- 27. Sixty years old, 1895-1896 -- 28. "An impregnable position," 1896-1898 -- 29. "We now want to take root," 1897-1898 -- 30. The anti-imperialist, 1898-1899 -- 31. "The richest man in the world," 1899-1901 -- 32. "The saddest days of all," 1901 -- 33. "A fine piece of friendship," 1902-1905 -- 34. "Apostle of peace," 1903-1904 -- 35. "Inveterate optimist," 1905-1906 -- 36. Peace conference, 1907 -- 37. Tariffs and treaties, 1908-1909 -- 38. "So be it," 1908-1910 -- 39. The best laid schemes, 1909-1911 -- 40. "Be of good cheer," 1912-1913 -- 41. 1914 -- 42. Last days, 1915-1919 -- Notes -- Bibliography of works cited -- Acknowledgments -- Index.
Summary 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. -http://www.booksinprint.com.
Subject Carnegie, Andrew, 1835-1919.
Industrialists -- United States -- Biography.
Philanthropists -- United States -- Biography.
ISBN 1594201048
9781594201042
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