1835-1919

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1835-1919

Andrew Carnegie and the rise of big business

2007
A biography of Scotsman Andrew Carnegie that discusses how his actions, as founder of Carnegie Steel, contributed to the reorganization of the pattern of industrial activity.

The autobiography of Andrew Carnegie

2011
Nineteenth- and early twentieth-century industrialist and philanthropist Andrew Carnegie tells his controversial rags-to-riches life story up to 1914, five years before his death.

Andrew Carnegie

builder of libraries
1997
Biography of nineteenth-century philanthropist Andrew Carnegie, tracing his path from poverty to great wealth, providing information about some of the important historical events that occurred during his lifetime, and discussing how he used his money to support education through a library building program.

Andrew Carnegie

steel king and friend to libraries
1999
A biography of the Scottish immigrant who made a fortune in the steel industry and used much of it for philanthropic causes.

Andrew Carnegie

steel tycoon
1989
A biography of the Scottish immigrant who became the richest man in the world for his time, due to his involvements in the railroad, telegraph, iron, and steel; and who before he died disposed of the bulk of his fortune in philanthropic ways, feeling that a man who died with his fortune intact died disgraced.

The tycoons

how Andrew Carnegie, John D. Rockefeller, Jay Gould, and J.P. Morgan invented the American supereconomy
2005
Presents an analysis of how Andrew Carnegie, John D. Rockefeller, Jay Gould, and J.P. Morgan revolutionized the American economy during the Industrial Age, and discusses how each built their empires, the competition among them, and their influence on society.

Andrew Carnegie

industrial philanthropist
2004
Chronicles the rags-to-riches tale of a Scottish immigrant who used most of the millions he earned as a steel tycoon to set up a fund for the advancement of science, education, and peace.

Meet you in hell

Andrew Carnegie, Henry Clay Frick, and the bitter partnership that transformed America
2005
Presents a comprehensive history of Andrew Carnegie and Henry Clay Frick, and describes their early partnership as heads of the largest steel mill in American and the 1892 steelworker's strike that transformed that relationship into a bitter feud that lasted over twenty years.

The Homestead Steel Strike of 1892

2006
Chronicles the events surrounding the 1892 Homestead Steel Strike, in which two of the nation's most powerful businessmen, Andrew Carnegie and Henry C. Frick, were pitted against the workers in their steel mill.

Andrew Carnegie

2006
Chronicles the life of industrialist Andrew Carnegie, discussing his childhood, various careers, involvement with politics, success in business, and philanthropy.

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