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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Only after the Populists captured the Democratic party at the national convention in Chicago in 1896 and found a powerful new voice in William Jennings Bryan was Carnegie's primer on fiscal conservatism resurrected from oblivion by the ...
Only after the Populists captured the Democratic party at the national convention in Chicago in 1896 and found a powerful new voice in William Jennings Bryan was Carnegie's primer on fiscal conservatism resurrected from oblivion by the ...
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Snowden , Philip , 1st Viscount Snowden ( 1864–1937 ) ; chairman of the Independent Labor Party ( 1903–06 , 1917–20 ) ; M.P. ( 1906–18 , 1922–31 ) ; chancellor of the exchequer ( 1924 , 1929–31 ) ; author of Social- ism and Syndicalism ...
Snowden , Philip , 1st Viscount Snowden ( 1864–1937 ) ; chairman of the Independent Labor Party ( 1903–06 , 1917–20 ) ; M.P. ( 1906–18 , 1922–31 ) ; chancellor of the exchequer ( 1924 , 1929–31 ) ; author of Social- ism and Syndicalism ...
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He lays down as ripe for action the seven points in the Indepen- dent Labor Party programme , which he says is far and away the most repre- sentative Socialist body in Britain , thus stamping the Socialistic label upon all these points ...
He lays down as ripe for action the seven points in the Indepen- dent Labor Party programme , which he says is far and away the most repre- sentative Socialist body in Britain , thus stamping the Socialistic label upon all these points ...
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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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