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Andrew Carnegie by David Nasaw (2006, Hardcover) 
Andrew Carnegie by David Nasaw (2006, Hardcover)

 
Andrew Carnegie by David Nasaw (2006, Hardcover)

Author: David Nasaw
Publisher: Penguin Group USA
Publication Date: 2006-10-24
Language: English
Format: Hardcover
ISBN-10: 1594201048
ISBN-13: 9781594201042
Product ID: EPID52752930
Description: Steel magnate Andrew Carnegie is remembered for making a fortune and for giving much of it away to good causes--in particular the many neighborhood branch libraries in New York City. Biographer David Nasaw recounts Carnegie's impoverishe...
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Synopsis
Steel magnate Andrew Carnegie is remembered for making a fortune and for giving much of it away to good causes--in particular the many neighborhood branch libraries in New York City. Biographer David Nasaw recounts Carnegie's impoverished roots in Scotland, his arrival in America, and his rise in the steel industry. Drawing on extensive family papers, as well as Carnegie's autobiography, Nasaw portrays the public and private man who knew presidents and prime ministers, and who worked assiduously in the cause of peace until his death in 1919. A New York Times Notable Book of the Year for 2006.

Details
Publication Date:2006-10-24

Size
Length:878 pages
Height:9.5 in
Width:6.8 in
Thickness:2.0 in
Weight:44.8 oz

Publisher's Note
A National Book Critics Circle Award-nominated biographer chronicles the life of the iconic business titan from his modest upbringing in mid-1800s Scotland through his rise to one of the world's richest men, offering insight into his work as a peace advocate and his motivations for giving away most of his fortune. 120,000 first printing.

Industry Reviews
"Nasaw paints an endearing portrait of an ebullient, optimistic charmer who won the devotion of virtually everyone who knew him personally with his wide-ranging intelligence, his sense of humor, his unwavering loyalty, his thoughtfulness and generosity."
(10/22/2006)

"[A] marvelous window onto both the man and his world....Mr. Nasaw tells this tale extremely well....I expect it will be the definitive work on Carnegie for the foreseeable future, and it fully deserves to be."
(10/30/2006)

"The great strength of this immense biography is the way in which David Nasaw causes these tributaries--capitalism, radicalism, and educational aspiration--to converge like the three rivers (the Allegheny, the Ohio, and the Monongahela) whose confluence makes the site of Pittsburgh possible."
(12/01/2006)

"Nasaw's Carnegie is a man of enthusiasms, and the author captures his ebullience in limpid prose, making his biography a delight to read."
(04/02/2007)

"[E]xhaustively researched and clearly written. [P]acked with detail that often fascinates but sometimes fatigues....For all his ruling-class narcissism, [Carnegie] comes across in Nasaw's pages as a fascinating and ultimately likeable figure."
(04/02/2007)

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