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Andrew Carnegie (Paperback)
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Celebrated historian David Nasaw, whom The New York Times Book
Review has called "a meticulous researcher and a cool analyst,"
brings new life to the story of one of America's most famous and
successful businessmen and philanthropists-in what will prove to be
the biography of the season. 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. 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. Nasaw
explains how Carnegie made his early fortune and what prompted him
to give it all away, how he was drawn into the campaign first
against American involvement in the Spanish-American War and then
for international peace, and how he used his friendships with
presidents and prime ministers to try to pull the world back from
the brink of disaster. With a trove of new material-unpublished
chapters of Carnegie's Autobiography; personal letters between
Carnegie and his future wife, Louise, and other family members; his
prenuptial agreement; diaries of family and close friends; his
applications for citizenship; his extensive correspondence with
Henry Clay Frick; and dozens of private letters to and from
presidents Grant, Cleveland, McKinley, Roosevelt, and British prime
ministers Gladstone and Balfour, as well as friends Herbert
Spencer, Matthew Arnold, and Mark Twain-Nasaw brilliantly plumbs
the core of this facinating and complex man, deftly placing his
life in cultural and political context as only a master storyteller
can.
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