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Carnegie

by Peter Krass. 612 pgs.

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Contributors:

   Peter Krass

Publisher:

   Wiley

Place of Publication:

  New York  

Publication Year:

  2002
Subjects:   Carnegie, Andrew,--1835-1919, Industrialists--United States--Biography, Philanthropists--United States--Biography, Steel Industry And Trade--United States--History
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Carnegie
Book by Peter Krass; Wiley, 2002
Subjects: Carnegie, Andrew--1835-1919, Industrialists--United States--Biography, Philanthropists--United States--Biography, Steel Industry And Trade--United States--History
...references and index. ISBN 0-471-38630-8 1. Carnegie, Andrew, 1835 1919. 2. Industrialists United States Biography. 3. Philanthropists United States Biography. 4. Steel industry and trade United States...
2.
Women Public Speakers in the United States, 1800-1925: A Bio-Critical Sourcebook
Book by Karlyn Kohrs Campbell; Greenwood Press, 1993
Subjects: Feminists--United States--Biography--Dictionaries, Women Orators--United States--Biography--Dictionaries, Women Social Reformers--United States--Biography--Dictionaries
...Public Speakers in the United States, 1800-1925 Women Public...reformers-- United States--Biography--Dictionaries. 2. Feminists--United States--Biography--Dictionaries. 3. Women orators--United States--Biography--Dictionaries. I. Campbell...
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Andrew Carnegie Centenary, 1835-1935: The Memorial Address by Sir James Colquhoun Irvine, and Other Tributes to the Memory of Andrew Carnegie
Book; Carnegie Corporation, 1935
Subjects: Carnegie, Andrew--1835-1919
...Advancement of Teaching, Dr. Butler spoke in memory of Andrew Carnegie. On the same evening, Dr. Walter A. Jessup, President...above. In these conditions, on twenty-fifth November, 1835, Andrew Carnegie made his entrance into the world...
4.
Wisdom from the Robber Barons: Enduring Business Lessons from Rockefeller, Morgan, and the First Industrialists
Book by George David Smith, Frederick Dalzell; Perseus Publishing, 2000
Subjects: Business--Quotations, Maxims, Etc, Capitalists And Financiers--United States, Carnegie, Andrew--1835-1919--Quotations, Ford, Henry--1863-1947--Quotations, Industrialists--United States, Morgan, J. Pierpont--(John Pierpont)--1837-1913--Quotations, Rockefeller, John D--(John Davison)--1839-1937--Quotations
...MORGAN, AND THE FIRST INDUSTRIALISTS GEORGE DAVID SMITH AND...publisher. Printed in the United States of America. A CIP catalog...through the 1920s, the United States -- and the world -- underwent...country and the world. The United States, once a scattered collection...
5.
Autobiography of Andrew Carnegie
Book by Andrew Carnegie; Houghton Mifflin Company, 1920
Subjects: Carnegie, Andrew--1835-1919
...with Bancroft "History of the United States," which I studied with more care...secure for him the appointment of United States Consul at Dunfermline. The operating-room...women as telegraph operators in the United States upon railroads, or perhaps in any...
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Business Leaders: A Historical Sketch of Andrew Carnegie
Journal article by Daniel A. Wren, Ronald G. Greenwood; Journal of Leadership Studies, Vol. 5, 1998
Subjects: Carnegie, Andrew--Conduct of life, Leadership--19th century
...management, and also the misfortune of getting fired for succeeding. He was born in Scotland but in 1822 came to the United States, where he received - some elementary schooling. McCallum left school to become an accomplished carpenter and architect...
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A Gendered History of African Colonization in the Antebellum United States
Journal article by Bruce Dorsey; Journal of Social History, Vol. 34, 2000
Subjects: American Colonization Society--History, Gender identity--History, Slaves--Social aspects
...History of the Negro People in the United States, vol. 1 (New York, 1951), 176-86...Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography 100 (1976): 356-73; David McBride...Destiny of the Colored People of the United States (Philadelphia, 1852; reprint ed...Destiny of the Colored People of the United States. (49.) Based on a comparison with...
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Zionism, Socialism and United States Support for the Jewish Colonization of Palestine in the 1920s
Journal article by Lawrence Davidson; Arab Studies Quarterly (ASQ), Vol. 18, 1996
Subjects: Jews in Palestine--History, Palestine--History, Socialism--Analysis, United States--Foreign relations, Zionism--Public opinion, Zionists--Relations with the United States
...ibid., pp. 65-66. 15. Michael Bar-Zohar, Ben Gurion: A Biography, New York: Adama Books, 1978; pp. 51-52. 16. Shapiro...Zionist community. David Ben Gurion spent three years in the United States, 1915-1918, as a representative of Paole Zion. He sought...The financial contributions coming to the WZO from the United States were too important to allow a total break with the American...
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The Business Life of Emmett Jay Scott
Journal article by Maceo Crenshaw Dailey Jr.; Business History Review, Vol. 77, 2003
Subjects: African Americans, Entrepreneurs, Racism, Social conditions & trends, Theory, United States
...hailed Banks as "the most influential Negro businessman in the United States" and "the leading Negro banker in Mississippi." The town...Paul Robeson to star. Scott mailed Robeson a copy of the biography, observing that he would "find that he and the Founder of...
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Baum's Wizard of Oz as Gilded Age Public Relations
Journal article by Tim Ziaukas; Public Relations Quarterly, Vol. 43, 1998
Subjects: Baum, L Frank, Gold standard, History, Novels, Public relations, United States
...gold standard. By 1879, then, the United States was, in effect, on a gold standard...and the have-nots, urban and rural, industrialists and farmers and, of course, Republicans...and Nye, and Baum and MacFall for biography). His father earned his fortune from...standard had finally triumphed in the United States, and Bryans second defeat in the...
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"Our History Is Our Strength" - Celebrating the Varied Roles and Accomplishments of Women through Historical Fiction and Biography
Magazine article by Armin R. Schulz; Social Studies Review, Vol. 46, Fall 2006
Subjects: Books, Musical theater, Political activism, Roles
...because of their contributions. Each biography features a sepia toned illustration...Scholastic Encyclopedia of Women in the United States. by Sheila Keenan. (Illus. with photos...Dont miss the David Adler "Picture Biography of . . ." series, the "History Maker...
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LEGACY: A Biography of Walter and Moses Annenberg
Magazine article by Matthew Cooper; Washington Monthly, Vol. 31, June 1999
Subjects: Books--Reviews, LEGACY: A Biography of Walter and Moses Annenberg (Book)--Reviews
LEGACY: A Biography of Walter and Moses Annenberg by Matthew Cooper...newspaper subscribers--like giving away spoons with their states name on them. Branching out on his own, he acquired the Daily...donations to leverage more. He pledged $50 million to the United Negro College Fund on the condition the organization raise...
3.
Milton Hershey - America's Chocolatier
Magazine article by Craig Lancto; World and I, Vol. 18, May 2003
Subjects: Hershey, Milton Snavely--Biography, Philanthropists--Biography
...opened its doors to girls and nonorphans. It is open to all United States citizens from families with limited income, at least average...Museum, the Milton Hershey School, and Milton S. Hershey, a biography written by Katherine B. Shippen and Paul A.W. Wallace in...
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The Industrial-Strength Humanist: J. Irwin Miller Knew How to Get Things Built
Magazine article by Robert Campbell; American Scholar, Vol. 74, Winter 2005
Subjects: Industrialists--Biography, Miller, J. Irwin
...pictured in profile, like a figure on a coin. Esquires caption read: "This Man Ought to Be the Next President of the United States." I remember saying to myself, "Who the hell is J. Irwin Miller?" Decades later I met Miller, then in his eighties...
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Ideological, Bedfellows: College Professors and the Media Tell Us That There Are Right-Wing Totalitarians and There Are Left-Wing Totalitarians, but Is This an Accurate Assessment?
Magazine article by Bruce Walker; The New American, Vol. 25, November 9, 2009
Subjects: Hitler, Adolf, Mussolini, Benito, Right and left (Political science)--Analysis, Totalitarianism--Analysis
...propaganda had been anti-Christian since 1919. Hitler stated in 1932, before his...published History of Bigotry in the United States (1943): "Early in the Nazi movement...conquered fealty to Moscow. The Baltic States, East Poland, and other lost lands...
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He Died the Richest Man in the World. but His Museum Can't Afford to Stay Open; CARNEGIE HOME IN CASH CRISIS
Newspaper article by Andrew Lawrence; Sunday Mirror (London, England), October 31, 1999
Subjects: Carnegie, Andrew
...a bid to save pounds 20,000. The Andrew Carnegie Birthplace Museum, which is at a weavers...Carnegie was born in Dunfermline, Fife, in 1835, but emigrated to America as a child...pounds 210 million before his death in 1919. Carnegie believed in educational access for...endowment after his death, including the Carnegie Dunfermline Trust. Douglas Scott...
2.
Generous Returns on One Scot's Investment
Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), March 4, 2005
Subjects: Books--Book reviews, Carnegie, Andrew
...are slight. The Scot in question was Andrew Carnegie and he achieved that status when he sold...into poverty in Dunfermline, Fife, in 1835. But having become the wealthiest man...using up his money. By his death in 1919, Carnegie had given away more than $350million...
3.
Scots Who Helped Change the World; There Are Few Places on Earth Which Have Not Been Helped by a Bit of Tartan Expertise
Newspaper article; Daily Record (Glasgow, Scotland), November 30, 2006
...kaleidoscope - a device marvelled at by kids everywhere. 5 ANDREW CARNEGIE (1835-1919) This Dunfermline boys fortune came from iron and steelworks...in the Tower of London and later emigrated to America. 27 ANDREW MEIKLE (1719-1811) Meikles invention - at his mill in East...
4.
The 800; A Birthday Celebration of 800 People Who Put Liverpool on the Map
Newspaper article; Liverpool Echo (Liverpool, England), August 28, 2007
Subjects: Commonwealth games--Management, Coronation Street (Television program), Lennon, John--Achievements and awards, Manchester United--Management, McCartney, Paul--Achievements and awards, UEFA Cup (Soccer)--Management, United Kingdom. Royal Army Medical Corps--Management
...banker Thomas Agnew visited the United States and saw the work being done by...and from 1943-46 he worked in the United States as head of the British mission...international later played for Leeds United where he was named Player of the...
5.
Greatest Scot. Part Four: Inventors and Entrepreneurs
Newspaper article; Daily Record (Glasgow, Scotland), November 12, 2009
...largest ever assembled by one man and the largest given to a municipality - to the people of Glasgow. He died in 1958. ANDREW CARNEGIE THE industrialist became the richest person in the world but spent the last 18 years of his life giving away his fortune. Born in 1835, he started out with nothing, the son of a Scottish weaver in Dunfermline. But after emigrating to the US with his parents...still going strong today. Most famous as a benefactor of libraries, he funded nearly 3000 around the world. He died in 1919. JOHN LAW THE father of finance, Law was responsible for the introduction and use of paper money. At school in Edinburgh...
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encyclopedia articles on: (Carnegie Andrew 1835 1919) OR (Industrialists United States Biography) OR (Philanthropists United States Biography)  - 2 results

 
 
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Carnegie, Andrew
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
CARNEGIE, ANDREW karneg e, kar n ge, 1835 1919, American industrialist and philanthropist...family to Allegheny (now Pittsburgh), Pa. Andrew first worked in a cotton mill as a bobbin...1864) in iron manufactures. By 1873, Carnegie had recognized Americas need for steel...
2.
Madison, James
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
MADISON, JAMES 1751 1836, 4th President of the United States (1809 17), b. Port Conway, Va. Early Career A member...of Madisons administration. New England merchants and industrialists were already disaffected by the various embargoes, and...writings were edited by G. Hunt (9 vol., 1900 1910). See biography in his own words, ed. by M. D. Peterson (1974); biographies...


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