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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 MenChapter 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 autobiography of Andrew Carnegie, originally published in 1920, is an account of the authors early years, written mostly from a little bungalow retreat on the moors of Aultnagar in Scotland during the early 20th century.
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• The gospel of wealth
• The best fields for philanthropy
• The advantages of poverty
• The gospel of wealth II
• Wealth and its uses
• Business
• The three-legged stool.

In the essay, Carnegie argues that the accumulation of wealth is beneficial to society and the government should take no action to impede it. He wrote, 'The man who dies rich dies disgraced', and practiced what he preached and spent his last years giving away his vast fortune.
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An anthology which aims to bring together a representative selection of Carnegie's writings which show him as a shrewd businessman, celebrated philanthropist, champion of democracy and eternal optimist. This collection covers 60 years of the industrial giant's life, from his letters to his cousin, George Lauder, written in 1853, to the final chapter of his autobiography, completed in 1914.
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• The road to business success.--The ABC of money.--The common interest of labour and capital.--Thrift as a duty.--How to win fortune.--Wealth and its uses.--The bugaboo of trusts.--Anglo-American trade relations.--"Business."--Steel manufacture in the United States.--The cost of living in Britain.--Oil and gas wells.--The three-legged stool.--Railroads past and present.--Iron and steel at home and abroad.--The Manchester school and to-day.--What would I do with the tariff if I were czar?

• Introduction: How I served my apprenticeship--The gospel of wealth--The advantages of poverty.--Popular illusions about trusts.--An employer's view of the labor question.--Results of the labor struggle.--Distant possessions: the parting of the ways.--Americanism versus imperialism.--Democracy in England.--Home rule in America.--Does America hate England?--Imperial federation.