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Record Nr.

UNINA9910789049803321

Autore

Carnegie Andrew <1835-1919.>

Titolo

Autobiography of Andrew Carnegie

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Auckland : , : The Floating Press, , 1920

ISBN

1-77556-597-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (533 pages)

Disciplina

338.76720924

Soggetti

Industrialists - United States

Philanthropists - United States

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

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 Strike; Chapter 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

Sommario/riassunto

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.