Andrew Carnegie
Nasaw, David2006
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Born of modest origins in Scotland in 1835, Andrew Carnegie is best known as the founder of Carnegie Steel. His rags to riches story has never been told as dramatically and vividly as in Nasaw's new biography. 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
Main title:
Andrew Carnegie / David Nasaw.
Author:
Nasaw, David, author
Imprint:
New York ; London : Penguin Press, c2006.
Collation:
xiv, 878 pages, [32] pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm.
Notes:
Includes index.Includes bibliographical references (p. [842]-850) and index.
System details:
11513b
Contents:
Dunfermline, 1835-1848To America, 1848-1855Upward bound, 1853-1859War and riches, 1860-1865Branching out, 1865-1866A man of energy, 1867-1868"Mr. Carnegie is now 35 years of age, and is said to be worth one million of dollars," 1870-1872"All my eggs in one basket," 1872-1875Driving the bandwagon, 1875-1878Round the world, 1878-1881Making a name, 1881-1883Mr. Spencer and Mr. Arnold, 1882-1884"The star-spangled Scotchman," 1884Booms and busts, 1883-1885The "millionaire socialist," 1885-1886Things fall apart, 1886-1887A wedding and a honeymoon, 1887The Pinkertons and "Braddock's battlefield," 1887-1888Friends in high places, 1888-1889The gospels of Andrew Carnegie, 1889-1892Surrender at Homestead, 1889-1890"There will never be a better time than now to fight it out," 1890-1891The battle for Homestead, 1892Loch Rannoch, the Summer of 1892Aftermaths, 1892-1894"Be of good cheer--we will be over it soon, 1893-1895Sixty years old, 1895-1896"An impregnable position," 1896-1898"We now want to take root," 1897-1898The anti-imperialist, 1898-1899"The richest man in the world," 1899-1901"The saddest days of all," 1901"A fine piece of friendship," 1902-1905"Apostle of peace," 1903-1904"Inveterate optimist," 1905-1906Peace conference, 1907Tariffs and treaties, 1908-1909"So be it," 1908-1910The best laid schemes, 1909-1911"Be of good cheer," 1912-19131914Last days, 1915-1919.
ISBN:
97815942010421594201048
Dewey class:
338.7672092920.CARN920920 CARNB/CAR920CAR338
LC class:
CT275.C3
Local class:
920.CARNB.CARB CAR920B/CARL920CAR
Language:
English
Subject:
Index terms:
CARNEGIE, Andrew BIOGRAPHY
BRN:
342974