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Autore: | Carnegie Andrew |
Titolo: | Round the World [[electronic resource]] |
Pubblicazione: | Sheba Blake Publishing, 2013 |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (693 p.) |
Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
Nota di contenuto: | ROUND THE WORLD; PREFACE; CHAPTER ONE |
Sommario/riassunto: | Andrew Carnegie (1835 - 1919) was an American entrepreneur, businessman, and industrialist of Scottish extraction, known for his role as a major philanthropist. Carnegie's was the classic ""rags to riches"" tale, as he rose up by his bootstraps from a bobbin factory worker, a bill logger, and a messenger boy - eventually climbing his way through of the ranks of a telegraph company, where he made the leap into steel refining. When he sold the Carnegie Steel Company to J.P. Morgan for 480 million, it would become U.S. Steel. Carnegie donated most of his fortune to establish libraries, and other |
Titolo autorizzato: | Round the World |
ISBN: | 1-304-62693-8 |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910155504903321 |
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