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Majestically told and based on materials not available to any previous biographer, the definitive life of Andrew Carnegie-one of American business's most iconic and elusive titans...
Penguin
November 2006
On Sale: October 24, 2006
Featuring: Andrew Carnagie
896 pages
ISBN: 1594201048
EAN: 9781594201042
Hardcover
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Non-Fiction Biography
Celebrated historian David Nasaw, whom The New York Times
Book Review has called "a meticulous researcher and a
cool analyst," brings new life to the story of one of
America's most famous and successful businessmen and
philanthropists- in what will prove to be the biography of
the season.
Born of modest origins in Scotland in
1835, Andrew Carnegie is best known as the founder of
Carnegie Steel. His rags to riches story has never been told
as dramatically and vividly as in Nasaw's new biography.
Carnegie, the son of an impoverished linen weaver, moved to
Pittsburgh at the age of thirteen. The embodiment of the
American dream, he pulled himself up from bobbin boy in a
cotton factory to become the richest man in the world. He
spent the rest of his life giving away the fortune he had
accumulated and crusading for international peace. For all
that he accomplished and came to represent to the American
public-a wildly successful businessman and capitalist, a
self-educated writer, peace activist, philanthropist, man of
letters, lover of culture, and unabashed enthusiast for
American democracy and capitalism-Carnegie has remained, to
this day, an enigma.
Nasaw explains how Carnegie
made his early fortune and what prompted him to give it all
away, how he was drawn into the campaign first against
American involvement in the Spanish-American War and then
for international peace, and how he used his friendships
with presidents and prime ministers to try to pull the world
back from the brink of disaster.
With a trove of
new material-unpublished chapters of Carnegie's
Autobiography; personal letters between Carnegie and
his future wife, Louise, and other family members; his
prenuptial agreement; diaries of family and close friends;
his applications for citizenship; his extensive
correspondence with Henry Clay Frick; and dozens of private
letters to and from presidents Grant, Cleveland, McKinley,
Roosevelt, and British prime ministers Gladstone and
Balfour, as well as friends Herbert Spencer, Matthew Arnold,
and Mark Twain-Nasaw brilliantly plumbs the core of this
facinating and complex man, deftly placing his life in
cultural and political context as only a master storyteller can.
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