Andrew Carnegie
Subtitle: steel tycoon
By: by John Bowman.
Series: The American dream; American dream (Englewood Cliffs, N.J.)
Publisher: Silver Burdett
Published: 1989
Place of publication: Englewood Cliffs, N.J
Language: eng
Number of pages: 128
Subjects: Carnegie, Andrew, 1835-1919 -- Juvenile literature.; Carnegie, Andrew, 1835-1919.; Philanthropists -- United States -- Biography -- Juvenile literature.; Industrialists -- United States -- Biography -- Juvenile literature.; Steel industry and trade -- United States -- History -- Juvenile literature.; Industrialists.; Philanthropists.; United States -- Biography -- Juvenile literature.
Genres: Juvenile literature.; Biography
Description: A biography of the Scottish immigrant who became the richest man in the world for his time, due to his involvements in the railroad, telegraph, iron, and steel; and who before he died disposed of the bulk of his fortune in philanthropic ways, feeling that a man who died with his fortune intact died disgraced.
Notes: Bibliography: p. 124.
Includes index.