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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This brought me into notice , and finally I became an operator , and received the , to me , enormous recompense of twenty - five dollars per month - three hundred dollars a year ! This was a fortune - the very sum that I had fixed when ...
This brought me into notice , and finally I became an operator , and received the , to me , enormous recompense of twenty - five dollars per month - three hundred dollars a year ! This was a fortune - the very sum that I had fixed when ...
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There is scarcely an instance of a man who has made a fortune by speculation and kept it . Gamesters die poor , and there is certainly not an instance of a specu- lator who has lived a life creditable to himself , or advantageous to the ...
There is scarcely an instance of a man who has made a fortune by speculation and kept it . Gamesters die poor , and there is certainly not an instance of a specu- lator who has lived a life creditable to himself , or advantageous to the ...
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We landed at the Broomielaw , whither father and mother and Tom and I sailed thirty odd years ago , on the 800 - ton ship Wiscasset , and began our seven weeks ' voyage to the land of promise , poor emigrants in quest of fortune ; but ...
We landed at the Broomielaw , whither father and mother and Tom and I sailed thirty odd years ago , on the 800 - ton ship Wiscasset , and began our seven weeks ' voyage to the land of promise , poor emigrants in quest of fortune ; but ...
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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 |
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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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