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Andrew Carnegie
by David Nasaw
from Penguin (Non-Classics)
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Avg. Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0 
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A Disappointing Look at an Iconic Figure 
I would love to give this work a higher rating than 3 "stars." Carnegie is a very important figure from the late 19th and early 20th century, someone whose life story reveals much about his times. Like Rockefeller, he could practice, or at least countenance, some very tough, self-focused business practices, yet at the same time engage in incredible works of charity towards others. And like Rockefeller, he seemed to be able to balance these two seemingly conflicting goals without ever seeing tension between... more info
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Aftermath
The first two hundred pages of this book were enthralling, the next two hundred tiring, and the last four hundred excruciating. As others here have stated this book is really a reference work, and I leave respecting it as such. My main complaint is the way it morphed.
I presume it's because, as Carnegie aged and his fame grew, the volume of text and documents associated with him grew even faster. And so the bulk of Nasaw's story is about his old age, which is less interesting and, I think, less... more info
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Long and Boring 
Andrew Carnegie was both the Bill Gates and Thomas Friedman of the Gilded Age. An industrial visionary and brilliant business practitioner with a ruthless drive to be the best and most efficient Andrew Carnegie would semi-retire in middle age, and in his later years focus on giving away his vast fortune to remedy what he believed were the most perplexing problems of his age. But Mr. Carnegie was also the Gilded Age's prophet and messiah, borrowing Herbert Spencer's philosophy to hail America's Gilded Age as... more info
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An Icon of a Biography for the Man of Steel 
As a born and bred Pittsburgher, I really looked forward to this history of the Robber Baron years in my home town. I was not disappointed. This is a fascinating tale of Andrew Carnegie's life and his entanglements with the other powers of the era. Nasaw does a terrific job of getting into the detail of Carnegie's dealings and uncovering the myths of this powerful high roller. Living and making his millions before the Security and Exchange Commission came into the limelight, Carnegie and his friends were... more info
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