The Andrew Carnegie ReaderAn anthology which aims to bring together a representative selection of Carnegie's writings which show him as a shrewd businessman, celebrated philanthropist, champion of democracy and eternal optimist. This collection covers 60 years of the industrial giant's life, from his letters to his cousin, George Lauder, written in 1853, to the final chapter of his autobiography, completed in 1914. |
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These become to him his real world in childhood - the ideal is the ever - present real . The actual has yet to come when , later in life , he is launched into the workaday world of stern reality . Even then , and till his last day ...
These become to him his real world in childhood - the ideal is the ever - present real . The actual has yet to come when , later in life , he is launched into the workaday world of stern reality . Even then , and till his last day ...
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At a later date , when the process had become established in England , capital- ists began to erect the present Pennsylvania Steel Works at Harrisburg . These also had to pass through an experimental stage and at a critical moment would ...
At a later date , when the process had become established in England , capital- ists began to erect the present Pennsylvania Steel Works at Harrisburg . These also had to pass through an experimental stage and at a critical moment would ...
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The Monroe Doctrine had become global in its scope . T wice only have the American people been called upon to decide a ques- tion of such vital import as that now before them . Is the Republic , the apostle of Triumphant Democracy ...
The Monroe Doctrine had become global in its scope . T wice only have the American people been called upon to decide a ques- tion of such vital import as that now before them . Is the Republic , the apostle of Triumphant Democracy ...
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Contents
The Making of the SelfMade Man | 1 |
Carnegie at Work Making Money | 29 |
Carnegie at Work Giving Away Money | 125 |
Copyright | |
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| Title | The Andrew Carnegie Reader Pitt Series in Policy and Institutional Studies Pittsburgh series in social and labor history |
| Author | Andrew Carnegie |
| Editor | Joseph Frazier Wall |
| Contributor | Joseph Frazier Wall |
| Publisher | University of Pittsburgh Press, 1992 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 4 Jun 2008 |
| ISBN | 082293700X, 9780822937005 |
| Length | 325 pages |
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