Andrew Carnegie

by Nasaw, David

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Title Statements

Full title :Andrew Carnegie / David Nasaw.

Summary

Born of modest origins in Scotland in 1835, Andrew Carnegie is best known as the founder of Carnegie Steel ... Carnegie, the son of an impoverished linen weaver, moved to Pittsburgh at the age of thirteen. The embodiment of the American dream, he pulled himself up from bobbin boy in a cotton factory to become the richest man in the world. He spent the rest of his life giving away the fortune he had accumulated and crusading for international peace. For all that he accomplished and came to represent to the American public - a wildly successful businessman and capitalist, a self-educated writer, peace activist, philanthropist, man of letters, lover of culture, and unabashed enthusiast for American democracy and capitalism - Carnegie has remained, to this day, an enigma.-http://www.booksinprint.com.

Edition Statements

Publication Date:2006.

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Penguin Press
Place of Publication:New York
Language:eng
Publication Date:2006.

The Physical Object

Description:1 online resource (xiv, 878 pages) : : illustrations

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:1322739463, 9781322739465
oclc:ocn989013699
LC Classification:CT275.C3
Dewey Decimal:B

Subjects

Biographie Biographies Carnegie, Andrew Industrialists Industrialists -- Biography -- United S… Industriels -- Biographies. -- États-Un… Philanthropists Philanthropists -- Biography -- United … United States Verenigde Staten