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Intro -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Preface* -- Editor's Note -- Chapter 1 -- Parents and Childhood -- Chapter 2 -- Dunfermline and America -- Chapter 3 -- Pittsburgh and Work -- Chapter 4 -- Colonel Anderson and Books -- Chapter 5 -- The Telegraph Office -- Chapter 6 -- Railroad Service -- Chapter 7 -- Superintendent of the Pennsylvania -- Chapter 8 -- Civil War Period -- Chapter 9 -- Bridge-Building -- Chapter 10 -- The Iron Works -- Chapter 11 -- New York as Headquarters -- Chapter 12 -- Business Negotiations -- Chapter 13 -- The Age of Steel -- Chapter 14 -- Partners, Books, and Travel -- Chapter 15 -- Coaching Trip and Marriage -- Chapter 16 -- Mills and the Men -- Chapter 17 -- The Homestead Strike -- Chapter 18 -- Problems of Labor -- Chapter 19 -- The "Gospel of Wealth -- Chapter 20 -- Educational and Pension Funds -- Chapter 21 -- The Peace Palace and Pittencrieff -- Chapter 22 -- Mathew Arnold and Others -- Chapter 23 -- British Political Leaders -- Chapter 24 -- Gladstone and Morley -- Chapter 25 -- Herbert Spencer and His Disciple -- Chapter 26 -- Blaine and Harrison -- Chapter 27 -- Washington Diplomacy -- Chapter 28 -- Hay and McKinley -- Chapter 29 -- Meeting the German Emperor -- Bibliography -- Endnotes -- Index -- Blank Page

This economic biography examines the rise of Andrew Carnegie from a poverty-stricken childhood to a position of international leadership, philanthropy, and peace advocacy. It presents a dynamic and entrepreneurial economic actor who built an industrial empire by shrewd calculation and innovations in products, technology, and industrial organization.

In the 1890s, the Carnegie Veterans Association began as a group of boyhood friends and older Andrew Carnegie steel partners united to share business ideas, but it evolved into a powerful secretive network in American business circles. By 1925, these Carnegie lieutenants controlled more than 60 percent of the country's industrial assets. Haunted by their past with Carnegie Steel, they demanded a new ethical relationship with labor and adopted a philanthropic philosophy of paternal capitalism, building libraries, churches, schools, and hospitals. Ultimately, their experiments in industrial demo...