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Title: Carnegie by Peter Krass ISBN: 0-471-38630-8 Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Pub. Date: 30 August, 2002 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $35.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.38 (13 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: A Biography that reads like a novel!
Comment: I enjoy reading a good biography every once in a while, which prompted me to buy this book. What a pleasant surprise it turned out to be! Peter Krass does a super job of writing the "play by play" as we follow the life of Andrew Carnegie--a man who goes from being the biggest shark in the wealth creation sea to becoming a man proficient at giving all that money away! This book reads like a well written novel--its like sitting back and watching a well played game of Monopoly! It is on a par with the Lindbergh story and many other recent best selling biographies that I've had a chance to read.
Rating: 4
Summary: A good read
Comment: Krass, in this compeling biography is able to capture the internal contradictions and struggles Carnegie dealt with by intense research and often unbearable facts. He succeeds in bringing the reader into the actual life of Carnegie by relying heavily on primary sources. Krass also does an excellent job in portraying Carnegie as a philanthropist, setting a standard as a moral leader in America.
Rating: 5
Summary: Carnegie: the capitalist, philanthropist, peace-seeker
Comment: Peter Krass's biography, "Carnegie", is a terrific look at a man whose name most of us have known all of our lives, but whose life has remained something of a mystery. The name "Carnegie" evokes thoughts of money and power and in this mature biography, Krass has managed to give us a thorough look at Andrew Carnegie, from his hardscrabble boyhood days in Scotland, to his eventual rise to the top of the business world and to the monetary charity that marked his final years.
Not only does the author spend time writing about Carnegie's achievements but he is careful to include the emotional state of his subject. Carnegie could be petty and vicious one minute then caring and loving the next. How that affected his business as well as his personal life is what makes this book so engrossing.
While most of us know that Andrew Carnegie made his millions in the steel business, his knowledge of other businesses and how they intertwined with his own (especially the railroads) is fascinating. Through his gift-giving for the erection of hundreds of libraries around the world he made sure that Andrew Carnegie's name would be remembered for generations. No small ego here! It would seem that the author has given Carnegie a balanced look with the good side outweighing the bad in the final analysis.
What I gleaned from Peter Krass is a part of Andrew Carnegie about which I hadn't known...his efforts in the "peace movement" of his day. How firmly committed to the abolishment of war was Carnegie and his means to that end are cleary laid out in this biography. Carnegie's close working relationships and correspondence with every president from Cleveland to Wilson is offered by Krass, giving an added bonus to those of us who enjoy biographies of U.S. presidents, and it marks some of the lighter moments of the book as Krass relates how Carnegie liked to meddle in the affairs of state, often without invitation.
Through all of Andrew Carnegie's duplicity and vindictiveness toward his own workers and colleagues as he rose to the top, he more than made up for it in his philanthropic works later in life. Carnegie was that "rare breed" and Peter Krass has captured all of it.
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Title: Titan : The Life of John D. Rockefeller, Sr. by Ron Chernow ISBN: 0679757031 Publisher: Vintage Pub. Date: 07 September, 1999 List Price(USD): $18.00 |
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Title: Morgan : American Financier by Jean Strouse, Random House Inc. ISBN: 0060955899 Publisher: Perennial Pub. Date: 01 April, 2000 List Price(USD): $18.00 |
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Title: Wheels for the World: Henry Ford, His Company, and a Century of Progress, 1903-2003 by Douglas Brinkley ISBN: 067003181X Publisher: Viking Press Pub. Date: 28 April, 2003 List Price(USD): $34.95 |
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Title: Memoirs by David Rockefeller ISBN: 0679405887 Publisher: Random House Pub. Date: 15 October, 2002 List Price(USD): $35.00 |
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Title: The Autobiography of Andrew Carnegie by Andrew Carnegie, Cecelia Tichi ISBN: 155553001X Publisher: Northeastern University Press Pub. Date: November, 1986 List Price(USD): $22.00 |
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