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.
Krass has contributed articles to Investor\'s Business Daily and Across the Board..
His other books include The Book of Business Wisdom, The Book of Leadership Wisdom, and The Book of Investing Wisdom, all published by Wiley.
About the Author: PETER Krass lives in Hanover, New Hampshire, but his family roots are in the Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, area where Andrew Carnegie made his fortune and where his great-grandfather worked in a Carnegie steel mill.
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.
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. and mill workers worked seven-day weeks while Carnegie spent months traveling across Europe. . .
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 .
In this compelling biography, Peter Krass reconstructs the complicated life of this titan who came to power in America\'s Gilded Age.
In retirement, Carnegie became an avid promoter of world peace, only to be crushed emotionally by World War I.
He used his wealth to ascend the world\'s political stage, influencing the presidencies of Grover Cleveland, William Mc Kinley, and Theodore Roosevelt.
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
