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Autobiography of Andrew Carnegie / Andrew Carnegie.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Carnegie, Andrew, author.
- Series:
- Historical figures
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Carnegie, Andrew, 1835-1919.
- Carnegie, Andrew.
- Industrialists--United States--Biography.
- Industrialists.
- Philanthropists--United States--Biography.
- Philanthropists.
- United States.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xiv, 266 pages).
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Snova, [2018]
- Summary:
- This autobiography of Andrew Carnegie, originally published in 1920, is an account of the author's early years, written mostly from a little bungalow retreat on the moors of Aultnagar in Scotland during the early 20th century.
- Contents:
- Parents and childhood
- Dunfermline and America
- Pittsburgh and work
- The telegraph office
- Railroad service
- Superintendent of the Pennsylvania
- Civil war period
- Bridge-building
- The iron works
- New York as headquarters
- Business negotiations
- The age of steel
- Partners, books, and travel
- Coaching trip and marriage
- Mills and the men
- The homestead strike
- Problems of labor
- The "gospel of wealth"
- Educational and pension funds
- The peace palace and Pittencrieff
- Matthew Arnold and others
- British political leaders
- Gladstone and Morley
- Herbert Spencer and his disciple
- Blaine and Harrison
- Washington diplomacy
- Hay and McKinley
- Meeting the German emperor.
- Notes:
- "This is an edited, reformatted and augmented version of the 'Autobiography of Andrew Carnegie' by Andrew Carnegie, was previously published by London, Constable & Co. Limited in 1920"--Preface note.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 1-5361-3748-0
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