Autobiography of Andrew Carnegie.
by
 
Carnegie, Andrew.

Title
Autobiography of Andrew Carnegie.

Author
Carnegie, Andrew.

ISBN
9781775565970

Personal Author
Carnegie, Andrew.

Physical Description
1 online resource (533 pages)

Contents
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.

Abstract
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...

Local Note
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

Subject Term
Carnegie, Andrew, -- 1835-1919.
 
Industrialists -- United States -- Biography.
 
Philanthropists -- United States -- Biography.

Genre
Electronic books.

Electronic Access
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LibraryMaterial TypeItem BarcodeShelf NumberStatus
IYTE LibraryE-Book1200894-1001CT275 .C3 -- .A3 1920 EBEbrary E-Books