The Autobiography of Andrew Carnegie and the Gospel of Wealth

The enlightening memoir of the industrialist as famous for his philanthropy as for his fortune.. His good friend Mark Twain dubbed him “St. Andrew.” British Prime Minister William Gladstone called him an “example” for the wealthy. Such terms seldom apply to multimillionaires. But Andrew Carnegie was no run-of-the-mill steel magnate. At age 13 and full of dreams he sailed from his native Dunfermline Scotland to America. The story of his success begins with a $1.20-a-week job at a bobbin factory. By the end of his life he had amassed an unprecedented fortune—and given away more than 90 percent of it for the good of mankind.   Here for the first time in one volume are two impressive works by Andrew Carnegie himself: his autobiography and “The Gospel of Wealth” a groundbreaking manifesto on the duty of the wealthy to give back to society all of their fortunes. And he practiced what he preached erecting 1600 libraries across the country founding Carnegie Mellon University building Carnegie Hall and performing countless other acts of philanthropy because as Carnegie wrote “The man who dies thus rich dies disgraced.”   With an Introduction by Gordon Hutner