Bookmarks, January 1st, 2007
GOOD/EXCELLENT Andrew Carnegie By David Nasaw The Robber Baron, reconsidered. Andrew Carnegie's life is the quintessential rags-to-riches story. Emigrating from Scotland in 1848, the self-taught Carnegie worked as a bobbin boy in a Pittsburgh cotton factory before becoming the world's richest person, his steel empire a dominant force in a booming American economy. The jolly Carnegie was truly larger than life (at 4'11" he was more comfortable dominating a room while seated) and a man of contradictory impulses devoid, seemingly, of external pressures. Carnegie infamously exploited workers--...
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