Autobiography of Andrew Carnegie: Top Biography
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PARENTS AND CHILDHOOD
CHAPTER II
DUNFERMLINE AND AMERICA
CHAPTER III
PITTSBURGH AND WORK
CHAPTER IV
COLONEL ANDERSON AND BOOKS
CHAPTER V
THE TELEGRAPH OFFICE
CHAPTER VI
RAILROAD SERVICE
CHAPTER VII
SUPERINTENDENT OF THE PENNSYLVANIA
CHAPTER VIII
CIVIL WAR PERIOD
CHAPTER IX
BRIDGE-BUILDING
CHAPTER X
THE IRON WORKS
CHAPTER XI
NEW YORK AS HEADQUARTERS
CHAPTER XII
BUSINESS NEGOTIATIONS
CHAPTER XIII
THE AGE OF STEEL
CHAPTER XIV
PARTNERS, BOOKS, AND TRAVEL
CHAPTER XV
COACHING TRIP AND MARRIAGE
CHAPTER XVI
MILLS AND THE MEN
CHAPTER XVII
THE HOMESTEAD STRIKE
CHAPTER XVIII
PROBLEMS OF LABOR
CHAPTER XIX
THE "GOSPEL OF WEALTH"
CHAPTER XX
EDUCATIONAL AND PENSION FUNDS
CHAPTER XXI
THE PEACE PALACE AND PITTENCRIEFF
CHAPTER XXII
MATHEW ARNOLD AND OTHERS
CHAPTER XXIII
BRITISH POLITICAL LEADERS
CHAPTER XXIV
GLADSTONE AND MORLEY
CHAPTER XXV
HERBERT SPENCER AND HIS DISCIPLE
CHAPTER XXVI
BLAINE AND HARRISON
CHAPTER XXVII
WASHINGTON DIPLOMACY
CHAPTER XXVIII
HAY AND McKINLEY
CHAPTER XXIX
MEETING THE GERMAN EMPEROR
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Andrew Carnegie (November 25, 1835 – August 11, 1919) was a Scottish-American industrialist who led the enormous expansion of the American steel industry in the late 19th century. He built a leadership role as a philanthropist for the United States and the British Empire. During the last 18 years of his life, he gave away to charities, foundations, and universities about $350 million (in 2015, $13.7 billion) – almost 90 percent of his fortune. His 1889 article proclaiming "The Gospel of Wealth" called on the rich to use their wealth to improve society, and it stimulated a wave of philanthropy.
Carnegie was born in Dunfermline, Scotland, and immigrated to the United States with his very poor parents in 1848. Carnegie started work as a telegrapher and by the 1860s had investments in railroads, railroad sleeping cars, bridges and oil derricks. He accumulated further wealth as a bond salesman raising money for American enterprise in Europe. He built Pittsburgh's Carnegie Steel Company, which he sold to J.P. Morgan in 1901 for $480 million (in 2011, $309 billion), creating the U.S. Steel Corporation. Carnegie devoted the remainder of his life to large-scale philanthropy, with special emphasis on local libraries, world peace, education and scientific research. With the fortune he made from business, he built Carnegie Hall and he founded the Carnegie Corporation of New York, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, Carnegie Institution for Science, Carnegie Trust for the Universities of Scotland, Carnegie Hero Fund, Carnegie Mellon University and the Carnegie Museums of Pittsburgh, among others.
