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The autobiography of Andrew Carnegie / with an introduction by Vartan Gregorian.

Title
The autobiography of Andrew Carnegie / with an introduction by Vartan Gregorian.
Author
Carnegie, Andrew, 1835-1919
Publication
New York : Public Affairs, 2011.

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Additional Authors
Gregorian, Vartan
Description
xxiv, 385 p. : ill., port.; 24 cm.
Alternative Title
Andrew Carnegie
Subject
  • Carnegie, Andrew, 1835-1919
  • Industrialists > United States > Biography
  • Philanthropists > United States > Biography
Genre/Form
  • Biographies
  • Autobiographies.
Note
  • Originally published: Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 1920.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. [375]-376) and index.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
Parents and childhood -- Dunfermline and America -- Pittsburg 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.
ISBN
  • 9781610390804 (hdbk.)
  • 1610390806 (hdbk.)
  • 9781610390828 (pbk.)
  • 1610390822 (pbk.)
  • 9781610390811 (eb)
  • 1610390814 (eb)
OCLC
  • 709681632
  • SCSB-10753474
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library