Autobiography of Andrew CarnegieThe 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 his life as compared with his great inspirations - his distribution of wealth, his passion for world peace, and his love for mankind. Here is his life story as told by Carnegie himself. |
Contents
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Chapter IV Colonel Anderson and Books | 69 |
Chapter V The Telegraph Office | 80 |
Chapter VI Railroad Service | 94 |
Chapter XVI Mills and the Men | 296 |
Chapter XVII The Homestead Strike | 307 |
Chapter XVIII Problems of Labor | 323 |
Chapter XIX The Gospel of Wealth | 344 |
Chapter XX Educational and Pension Funds | 362 |
Chapter XXI The Peace Palace and Pittencrieff | 380 |
Chapter XXII Mathew Arnold and Others | 400 |
Chapter XXIII British Political Leaders | 416 |
Chapter VII Superintendent of the Pennsylvania | 119 |
Chapter VIII Civil War Period | 139 |
Chapter IX BridgeBuilding | 159 |
Chapter X The Iron Works | 179 |
Chapter XI New York as Headquarters | 205 |
Chapter XII Business Negotiations | 228 |
Chapter XIII The Age of Steel | 246 |
Chapter XIV Partners Books and Travel | 267 |
Chapter XV Coaching Trip and Marriage | 283 |
Chapter XXIV Gladstone and Morley | 428 |
Chapter XXV Herbert Spencer and His Disciple | 448 |
Chapter XXVI Blaine and Harrison | 458 |
Chapter XXVII Washington Diplomacy | 470 |
Chapter XXVIII Hay and Mckinley | 482 |
Chapter XXIX Meeting the German Emperor | 494 |
Bibliography | 504 |
Endnotes | 508 |
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