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Easton Press leather edition of Harold C. Livesay's "Andrew Carnegie and the Rise of Big Business," a COLLECTOR'S edition, one of the LIBRARY OF AMERICAN HISTORY series, Illustrated with Period Photographs, published in 1988. Bound in hunter green leather, the book has decorative paper end leaves, acid-free paper, satin book marker, hubbed spine, gold gilt on three edges---in near FINE condition. Andrew Carnegie, who lived from 1835--1919, was a personal embodiment of the American Dream. He arrived in the U.S. as a 13-year old boy from Scotland without a penny to his name. Some fifty years later, the great financier J.P. Morgan told him, "Mr. Carnegie, I want to congratulate you on being the richest man in the world." Carnegie began working as a "bobbin boy in a textile mill." He later became a telegraph operator for the Pittsburgh Railroad and the rest is history. Carnegie's "prodigious" profits reached $21 million. Carnegie married Louise Whitfield in 1887. He was forty-five years old and she was twenty-three. He often treated Louise shabbily, as he galloped around the world leaving her alone, but they proved a happy match---although his mother, Margaret, did not approve of Louise or the marriage. Louise shared his dream of giving away his wealth. Carnegie was famous for saying that the "man who dies rich died disgraced." Carnegie was a collection of paradoxes, this man of American steel---violent and peace-loving, ruthless and loyal, greedy and generous, boastful and diffident, vain and doubting, brash and shy. Where he led, Henry Ford, Pierre du Pont and others followed. He became a world leader for peace and financed the Peace Palace at the Hague in the Netherlands. He gave 3,000 libraries, costing $60 million, 4,100 church organs, established Carnegie School of Technology, Carnegie Hall in New York City, and a trust fund for the University of Scotland. He did all this and more before he died peacefully in 1919. He did not die disgraced; he had given it all away. 202 pages. I offer combined shipping.
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