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Carnegie Andrew |
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Titolo |
Autobiography of Andrew Carnegie [[electronic resource]] |
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Auckland, : The Floating Press, 1920 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (533 p.) |
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Carnegie, Andrew, 1835-1919 -- Biography |
Carnegie, Andrew, 1835-1919 |
Industrialists -- United States -- Biography |
Philanthropists -- United States -- Biography |
History & Archaeology |
Biography - General |
Electronic books. |
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Lingua di pubblicazione |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Title; Contents; Preface; Editor's Note; Chapter I Parents and Childhood; Chapter II Dunfermline and America; Chapter III Pittsburgh and Work; Chapter IV Colonel Anderson and Books; Chapter V The Telegraph Office; Chapter VI Railroad Service; Chapter VII Superintendent of the Pennsylvania; Chapter VIII Civil War Period; Chapter IX Bridge-Building; Chapter X The Iron Works; Chapter XI New York as Headquarters; Chapter XII Business Negotiations; Chapter XIII The Age of Steel; Chapter XIV Partners, Books, and Travel; Chapter XV Coaching Trip and Marriage; Chapter XVI Mills and the Men |
Chapter XVII The Homestead StrikeChapter XVIII Problems of Labor; Chapter XIX The ""Gospel of Wealth""; Chapter XX Educational and Pension Funds; Chapter XXI The Peace Palace and Pittencrieff; Chapter XXII Mathew Arnold and Others; Chapter XXIII British Political Leaders; Chapter XXIV Gladstone and Morley; Chapter XXV Herbert Spencer and His Disciple; Chapter XXVI Blaine and Harrison; Chapter XXVII Washington Diplomacy; Chapter XXVIII Hay and Mckinley; Chapter XXIX Meeting the German Emperor; Bibliography; Endnotes |
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The industrialist, businessman, and philanthropist Andrew Carnegie (1835 - 1919) established a gospel of wealth that can be neither ignored nor forgotten, and set a pace in distribution that succeeding millionaires have followed as a precedent. In the course of his career he became a nation-builder, a leader in thought, a writer, a speaker, the friend of workmen, schoolmen, and statesmen, the associate of both the lowly and the lofty. But these were merely interesting happenings in... |
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