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- Product code: 16142
- ISBN: 0471468835,
ISBN13: 9780471468837,
624 pages, paperback
Published by John Wiley & Sons on 2002
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Description of Carnegie |
A fascinating, multifaceted look at the life and mind of one of America's greatest business leaders and philanthropists.
One of the first American entrepreneurs to achieve massive wealth, Andrew Carnegie rose from dire poverty to become a steel baron in possession of the largest fortune in history up to that time. Yet Carnegie also broke the capitalist mold by becoming one of the greatest philanthropists in U.S. history.
In this first full-scale biography of Carnegie in thirty years, Peter Krass gives us a vivid portrait of a complex man with an uncanny sense of destiny, whose unswerving belief in himself was so powerful that it swept up many of the people around him and made them millionaires, too.
Taking an impartial, clear-eyed view of his subject, Krass resists the temptation to either demonize or canonize Carnegie. He penetrates the public persona of the ruthless empire builder and tireless crusader for universal literacy and world peace to show a figure full of internal conflict and contradiction who ultimately made a lasting contribution to civilization.
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Contents of Carnegie |
Preface.
1. Flesh and Blood.
2. Odyssey to America.
3. $1.20 a Week.
4. The Scotch Devil.
5. Tree of Knowledge.
6. Blood Money and Black Gold.
7. An Iron Coup.
8. Many Hands, Many Cookie Jars.
9. Bridges to Glory.
10. Epiphany of Legend.
11. Template for Domination.
12. Rekindling the Flame.
13. War against the Steel Aristocracy.
14. An Attack on Britain.
15. Bleeding Hearts and Bleeding Newspapers.
16. Patronizing the Peasants.
17. The Pale Horse and the Gray Dress.
18. Gospel of Conscience.
19. Rewards from the Harrison Presidency.
20. Prelude to Homestead.
21. The Homestead Tragedy.
22. The Great Armor Scandal.
23. Seeking a Measure of Peace.
24. Illegal Rebates and a Fight with Rockefeller.
25. A Point of Disruption and Transition.
26. The Crusades.
27. UnCivil War.
28. The World's Richest Man.
29. Tainted Seeds.
30. Human Frailty.
31. The Peace Mission Begins.
32. The Metamorphosis of Andrew Carnegie.
33. Covert Deal with Taft.
34. The Last Great Benefaction.
35. House of Cards.
36. The War to End All Wars.
The Carnegie Legacy.
Notes.
Selected Bibliography.
Acknowledgments.
Index.
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About Peter Krass |
PETER KRASS lives in Hanover, New Hampshire, but his family roots are in the Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, area where Andrew Carnegie made his fortune and where his great-grandfather worked in a Carnegie steel mill. Krass has contributed articles to Investor’s Business Daily and Across the Board.
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