Autobiography of Andrew Carnegie

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This edition features
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 • a linked Table of Contents, linked Footnotes, and linked Index

CONTENTS
Parents and Childhood
II. Dunfermline and America
III. Pittsburgh and Work
IV. Colonel Anderson and Books
V. The Telegraph Office
VI. Railroad Service
VII. Superintendent of the Pennsylvania
VIII. Civil War Period
IX. Bridge-Building
X. The Iron Works
XI. New York as Headquarters
XII. Business Negotiations
XIII. The Age of Steel
XIV. Partners, Books, and Travel
XV. Coaching Trip and Marriage
XVI. Mills and the Men
XVII. The Homestead Strike
XVIII. Problems of Labor
XIX. The "Gospel of Wealth"
XX. Educational and Pension Funds
XXI. The Peace Palace and Pittencrieff
XXII. Matthew Arnold and Others
XXIII. British Political Leaders
XXIV. Gladstone and Morley
XXV. Herbert Spencer and His Disciple
XXVI. Blaine and Harrison
XXVII. Washington Diplomacy
XXVIII. Hay and McKinley
XXIX. Meeting the German Emperor
  Bibliography
  Index

About the author

Andrew Carnegie (1835-1919) was a Scottish American industrialist who led the enormous expansion of the American steel industry in the late nineteenth century. He was also one of the most important philanthropists of his era.

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