October 26, 2006
The Life of a Pittsburgh Businessman and Philanthropist
NEW BOOKS
Andrew Carnegie
by David Nasaw
In 1868, Andrew Carnegie, then 33 years old, jotted down a note on a scrap of paper: "Make no effort to increase fortune, but spend the surplus each year for benevolent purposes. Cast aside business forever except for others."
David Nasaw, a history professor at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York, describes the long, eventful life of the charismatic industrialist and
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