Andrew Carnegie, 1913. Library of Congress, public domain
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Andrew Carnegie
The definitive life of the man who invented modern philanthropy.
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- Author
- David Nasaw
- Publisher
- Penguin
- Published
- January 2007
- Pages
- 0
- Format
- Paperback
- Size
- Standard
- Language
- English
The Library Essay
The Steelmaker Who Feared Dying Rich
Andrew Carnegie arrived in Pittsburgh a weaver's son from Dunfermline and worked up from bobbin boy to telegraph operator to the master of American steel. When he sold Carnegie Steel to J. P. Morgan in 1901 he became, for a time, the richest man in the world, and then spent the rest of his life working to give the fortune away, on the principle he had published years earlier, that a man who dies rich dies disgraced.
David Nasaw's 2006 biography is the fullest life of Carnegie yet written, drawing on archives earlier biographers never saw. It holds the two Carnegies in one frame, the ruthless employer of Homestead and the founder of several thousand libraries, and declines to let either half excuse the other.
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