Carnegie
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Peter Krass
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One of the major figures in American history, Andrew Carnegie was a ruthless businessman who made his fortune in the steel industry and ultimately gave most of it away. He used his wealth to ascend the world's political stage, influencing the presidencies of Grover Cleveland, William McKinley, and Theodore Roosevelt. In retirement, Carnegie became an avid promoter of world peace, only to be crushed emotionally by World War I.
In this compelling biography, Peter Krass reconstructs the complicated life of this titan who came to power in America's Gilded Age. He transports the reader to Carnegie's Pittsburgh, where hundreds of smoking furnaces belched smoke into the sky and the air was filled with acrid fumes . . . and mill workers worked seven-day weeks while Carnegie spent months traveling across Europe.
Carnegie explores the contradictions in the life of the man who rose from lowly bobbin boy to build the largest and most profitable steel company in the world. Krass examines how Carnegie became one of the greatest philanthropists ever known-and earned a notorious reputation that history has yet to fully reconcile with his remarkable accomplishments.
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Book details
- Author
- Peter Krass
- Imprint
- Trade Paper Press, an imprint of Turner Publishing Company
- Published
- Pages
- 624
- Formats
- Hardcover, Paperback
- Subjects
- Biography & Autobiography › Business
Social Science › Philanthropy & Charity - Topics
- Andrew Carnegie · Gilded Age · American industrialists · steel industry · philanthropy · biography · Pittsburgh · world peace
- ISBN-13
- 9780471386308 (Hardcover)9781681620190 (Paperback)
About the author
PETER KRASS is an American journalist, editor, and biographer, and the author of Carnegie, Blood and Whiskey: The Life and Times of Jack Daniel, and The Book of Business Wisdom.
Krass attended Lafayette College, class of 1987, and Seton Hall University. His biography Carnegie, a 624-page life of industrialist and philanthropist Andrew Carnegie, was the first major biography of Carnegie written in thirty years and drew praise from Barron’s and the Dallas Morning News. He served three years as managing editor of Best American Essays and has contributed to Investor’s Business Daily and Across the Board.
Peter lives in Hanover, New Hampshire.