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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Joseph Frazier WallPublisher: Oxford University Press Inc Imprint: Oxford University Press Inc Dimensions: Width: 15.00cm , Height: 5.60cm , Length: 24.00cm Weight: 1.592kg ISBN: 9780195012828ISBN 10: 0195012828 Pages: 1150 Publication Date: 11 February 1970 Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate , Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In stock  We have confirmation that this item is in stock with the supplier. It will be ordered in for you and dispatched immediately. Table of ContentsReviewsThe first life of Andrew Carnegie to appear in a generation, this unbiased and exhaustively documented study by Professor of History at Grinnell also tells the story of American industrial development from the 1850's to 1901, when Carnegie retired as head of Carnegie Steel - the richest man in the world. All that is known of this pint-sized Scotsman must be in this book: his family, friends and associates; his shady business methods; his love of money; his part in the notorious Homestead strike; his philanthropies; his hero-worshipping obsession with world peace. As a boy in Scotland Andrew learned to see means as synonymous with end, a basic confusion, says the author, that persisted all his life. When power looms cost his father his job, his formidable mother took command of the family, bringing them in 1848 to Allegheny, Pa., where at 13 Andrew, undersized, charming, with a nose for money, went to work as a telegraph boy. At once he was on his way to fortune, his interests expanding with the country: railroads, sleeping cars, bridges, and finally Bessemer Steel. Hoping to increase profits by reducing costs, in 1892 Carnegie deliberately precipitated the Homestead strike by cutting union wages, then retreated to Scotland while his partner Frick built fortifications around the mill and imported 300 Pinkerton strikebreakers. Blacklisting the defeated union and posing as the friend of labor, Carnegie paid his workmen the lowest wages in the industry, reduced their supply of drinking water to save money - and was his life long haunted by Homestead. He retired in 1901, gave away libraries, showered advice on political leaders, salved his conscience by endowing funds and foundations and preached world peace. . . Too weighty (and long) for the general reader but an impressive, definitive work on the era and the man who expanded and dominated its industrial lifelines. (Kirkus Reviews) Author InformationJoseph Frazier Wall was Parker Professor of History and Dean of Grinnell College. His books included Henry Watterson: Reconstructed Rebel (OUP, 1956) and Alfred I. du Pont: The Man and His Family (OUP, 1990). Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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