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By David Nasaw

ISBN-10: 0143112449

ISBN-13: 9780143112440

ISBN-10: 1594201048

ISBN-13: 9781594201042

ISBN-10: 1596591242

ISBN-13: 9781596591240

The definitive account of the lifetime of Andrew Carnegie 

Celebrated historian David Nasaw, whom The ny occasions booklet Review has known as "a meticulous researcher and a funky analyst," brings new lifestyles to the tale of 1 of America's most famed and winning businessmen and philanthropists—in what's going to turn out to be the biography of the season.

Born of modest origins in Scotland in 1835, Andrew Carnegie is healthier often called the founding father of Carnegie metal. His rags to riches tale hasn't ever been advised as dramatically and vividly as in Nasaw's new biography. Carnegie, the son of an impoverished linen weaver, moved to Pittsburgh on the age of 13. The embodiment of the yank dream, he pulled himself up from bobbin boy in a cotton manufacturing facility to turn into the richest guy on the earth. He spent the remainder of his lifestyles giving freely the fortune he had amassed and crusading for foreign peace. For all that he complete and got here to symbolize to the yank public—a wildly winning businessman and capitalist, a self-educated author, peace activist, philanthropist, guy of letters, lover of tradition, and unabashed fanatic for American democracy and capitalism—Carnegie has remained, to at the present time, an enigma.

Nasaw explains how Carnegie made his early fortune and what brought on him to offer all of it away, how he was once drawn into the crusade first opposed to American involvement within the Spanish-American warfare after which for foreign peace, and the way he used his friendships with presidents and major ministers to aim to tug the realm again from the threshold of catastrophe. With a trove of latest material—unpublished chapters of Carnegie's Autobiography; own letters among Carnegie and his destiny spouse, Louise, and different relatives; his prenuptial contract; diaries of family members and shut pals; his functions for citizenship; his huge correspondence with Henry Clay Frick; and dozens of non-public letters to and from presidents supply, Cleveland, McKinley, Roosevelt, and British leading ministers Gladstone and Balfour, in addition to buddies Herbert Spencer, Matthew Arnold, and Mark Twain—Nasaw brilliantly plumbs the middle of this facinating and complicated guy, deftly putting his lifestyles in cultural and political context as just a grasp storyteller can.

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