Gospel of Wealth and the Autobiography of Andrew Carnegie
Andrew Carnegie was a Scottish-American industrialist, business magnate, and philanthropist. He led the expansion of the American steel industry in the late 19th century. He later became a leading philanthropist in the United States and in the British Empire. Carnegie was born in Scotland, and emigrated to the United States with his parents in 1848. He first worked as a telegrapher, and by the 1860s had investments in railroads, railroad sleeping cars, bridges, and oil derricks. He later built Pittsburgh's Carnegie Steel Company, sold to J. P. Morgan in 1901 for $480 million, which became the U.S. Steel Corporation. After selling Carnegie Ste…
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- ISBN: 978-1-60942-395-7
- EAN: 9781609423957
- Produktnummer: 28477594
- Verlag: Iap
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2018
- Seitenangabe: 308 S.
- Masse: H23.5 cm x B15.7 cm x D2.1 cm 601 g
- Abbildungen: HC gerader Rücken kaschiert
- Gewicht: 601
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ANDREW CARNEGIE (1835-1919) was an American industrialist and philanthropist born in Scotland and emigrated to America as a teenager. Carnegie's benefactions (totaling about $350 million) included Carnegie Hall (1892) in New York City, the Carnegie Institution of Washington (1902), the Carnegie Hero Fund Commission (1904), the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching (1905), the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (1910) and over 2,800 libraries.
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