Leaving large sums of money to descendants might not be a wise idea, but if more middle-class or poorer families do not leave their children anything, it can keep them from getting a leg up and possibly bettering their own lives. This would perpetuate the class and socio-economic status of that hereditary line, and thus not enable these people to obtain the sort of wealth that Carnegie had and was talking about in his gospel. This is very related to the idea of economic growth; without putting a substantial amount of capital back into industry, there would be no economic growth. Carnegie states in his gospel that the goal of spending during one's lifetime is to enrich the poorer people and enable them to obtain better lives and standards of living. If there is no economic growth, then there won't be any well-paying jobs for these people to take advantage…...

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Andrew Carnegie: Robber Baron or Captain of Industry?

Harold Livesay's biography of Andrew Carnegie portrays a man that can be called at once both a Robber Baron and a Captain of Industry. This paper will attempt to show how each title applied to Carnegie in his lifetime and how, in fact, the two titles (far from being dissimilar) may actually be considered synonymous.

Andrew Carnegie's humble beginnings do not necessarily qualify him for the title of "Captain of Industry" simply because he rose from poor immigrant status to tycoon. hat Livesay's portrayal does do is show how Carnegie came to personify the "American Dream" -- even if that dream was also a nightmare. Carnegie's unflagging disposition and pluck helped him thrive in an industry that was rapidly changing even as Carnegie himself was growing up. His work in the Pennsylvania Railroad gained for him the experience he needed to manage investments that…...

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Works Cited

Livesay, Harold. Andrew Carnegie and the Rise of Big Business. NY: Pearson

Longman, 2007.

There would be other incidents of violence, and it is that part of Carnegie's history where we are able in retrospect to see him as a businessman in retrospect.
There are some historians and researchers who believe that Carnegie and other wealthy men of the industrial era were not just men focused on building their industrial empires, but who were also focused on building world empires (Jenkins, Dominick, 2005, p. 223). To that end, they have been deemed internationalists by some researchers who hold that Carnegie, ockefeller, and Ford used justice acquire wealth (p. 223). It is what historian and researcher Dominick Jenkins (2005) calls "accumulation by dispossession (p. 223)." This is the philosophy that holds that these men, whose roots and origins were close to Europe, were not just ushering in an age of industrialization, but also a move towards global superiority and imperialism (p. 223).

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Carnegie, a. (1920). Autobiography of Andrew Carnegie. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company. Retrieved March 22, 2009, from Questia database:   http://www.questiaschool.com/PM.qst?a=o&d=43134764http://www.questia.com/PM.qst?a=o&d=392826 

Harrison, L.E. (1992). Who Prospers? How Cultural Values Shape Economic and Political Success. New York: Basic Books. Retrieved March 22, 2009, from Questia database:   http://www.questiaschool.com/PM.qst?a=o&d=5012238167http://www.questia.com/PM.qst?a=o&d=43134764 

Jenkins, D. (2005). Justice and the Return of Imperialism. Alternatives: Global, Local, Political, 30(2), 223+. Retrieved March 22, 2009, from Questia database:   http://www.questiaschool.com/PM.qst?a=o&d=106750378http://www.questia.com/PM.qst?a=o&d=5012238167 

His legacy lives on through his foundation, and most especially the structures he endowed upon his fellow man.
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Carnegie, A. And Gordon Hunter. The Autobiography of Andrew Carnegie and The Gospel of Wealth. Signet, 2006.

Garrison, L.D. Apostles of Culture: Public Librarian and American Society.

University of Wisconsin Press, 2003.

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Behind Carnegie's Millions to Public Libraries." Illinois Public Library

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And J.P. Morgan Invented the American Supereconomy. Holt, 2006.

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See: L.D. Garrison, Apostles of Culture: Public Librarian and American Society (University of Wisconsin Press, 2003). Numerous sources laud Carnegie for his philanthropy and dedication to…...

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Carnegie, A. And Gordon Hunter. The Autobiography of Andrew Carnegie and The Gospel of Wealth. Signet, 2006.

Garrison, L.D. Apostles of Culture: Public Librarian and American Society.

University of Wisconsin Press, 2003.

Koch, T.W. A Book of Carnegie Libraries. BiblioBazaar, 2009.

However, Andrew Carnegie did give, and his money has indeed benefited many millions of people all around the world, and people today can make use of the many libraries that he has built, in order to acquire knowledge and thereby better themselves. It must be remembered that Andrew Carnegie had a strong belief in the meritocracy of the United States of America, and also that his free libraries would be of immense benefit to the immigrants, like himself, who were arriving in America at that time. (De-constructing the Philanthropic library, the Sociological easons behind Andrew Carnegie's Millions to Libraries)
However, Andrew Carnegie is primarily remembered for two main reasons or achievements, without which the United States of America would not have been the America that it is today; one being that he managed to make enormous amounts of money as a successful businessman and an industrialist, and secondly, he managed…...

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Role of Andrew Carnegie
Andrew Camegie

Andrew Carnegie and the Rise of Big Business

Was Andrew Carnegie a "Robber Baron" or a "Captain of Industry"?

Andrew Carnegie was a Scottish American born on 25th November 1835. He was an ordinary person but then he succeeded in becoming an entrepreneur, industrialist and a businessman who made a great contribution towards the expansion of American steel industry in the late 19th century.

The book, "Andrew Carnegie and the Rise of Big Business" written by Harold C. Livesay, is a story of the Andrew Carnegie's role as a business man. Harold has done an extensive research for this book and has not only written about Carnegie but has also included lot of information regarding the history of America. This book chronically presents the events of Carnegie who was an immigrant and a poor Scottish boy who made his fortune in America and became the second richest man of…...

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In contrast and in comparison the writings of Andrew Carnegie also lend to the idea of the apologist, as if his luck and ingenuity give him a special place in the world of men, and therefore he has contributed to the greater good. Carnegie, stresses that the differences between the rich and the common are necessary as the greatest will rise to the top and from this lofty height will be better judges of the common need. Carnegie was such an apologist that one of his foundational philosophies, which he lived by was that instead of blindly giving the wealth of the father to the son or the descendants at all was the most irresponsible of social actions for the very wealthy. Here he makes a distinction between the very wealthy with surplus wealth and those perceived as wealthy but who really simply have amassed just enough to…...

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Spencer, H. (1857)"Social Darwinism" in Modern History Sourcebook.

Andrew Carnegies Gospel of WealthFrom the onset, it would be prudent to note that The Gospel of Wealth happens to be one of the most profound writings of the 19th Century. This is more so the case owing to the timeless relevance of the subject matter. However, before delving deeper into this great piece of writing, it would be prudent to first familiarize ourselves with Andrew Carnegie, the author of the said text. In brief, Carnegie was a steel tycoon who later on embraced philanthropy after having made a fortune in the steel industry. Before his death, Carnegie had given away millions to charitable causes. On this front, therefore, we could come to the conclusion that Carnegie was uniquely qualified to delve into the subject of philanthropy which is exactly what he did in this popular piece of writing.In basic terms, the piece largely advances the ideal or notion…...

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Carnegie, A. (1889). The Gospel of Wealth.  

https://www.carnegie.org/about/our-history/gospelofwealth/ 

rise of business and the new age of industrial capitalism forced Americans to think about, criticize, and justify the new order -- especially the vast disparities of wealth and power it created. This assignment asks you to consider the nature and meaning of wealth, poverty and inequality in the Gilded Age making use of the perspectives of four people who occupied very different places in the social and intellectual spectrum of late nineteenth-?century America:, the sociologist William Graham Sumner, the writer enry
George, a Massachusetts textile worker named Thomas O'Donnell, and the steel tycoon

Andrew Carnegie.

For Andrew Carnegie, wealth was a good thing. In his "Gospel of Wealth," Carnegies talks about the problem of "our age" which is the proper administration of wealth. e has his own philosophy of how wealth has come to be unequally distributed with the huge gap existing between those who have little and those who are…...

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Henry George, Progress and Poverty, Major Problems, pp. 20-?22.

Thomas O'Donnell Testimony before a U.S. Senate Committee, 1885 U.S. Congress,

Capital (Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1885

Homestead Strike
Carnegie Steel Co. is one of the largest manufacturing companies in the world and it's success is largely dependent upon the workers who manufacture the best steel anywhere. It is not Andrew Carnegie, or his lapdog Henry Frick, who toil in the difficult conditions with intense heat and compounded by dangers that would make those men cringe. It is the worker who risks his life so that men like Carnegie and Frick can sit in the lap of luxury enjoying the fruits of other men's labor. The owners may have invested their money, but we the workers invest our lives and souls into the company and deserve more than to be used and discarded as though we're just another piece of machinery. Not only are the we an instrumental part of the factory, we are the most important aspect of the manufacturing process and Carnegie and Frick are…...

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Brecher, Jeremy. "The Homestead Strike, 1892." libcom.org, 12 June 2013. Web. 6

hen Edith harton tells us that "it was the background that she [Lily] required," we understand that both Emma Bovary and Lily have a very important thing in common. They are first of all women in the nineteenth century society, fettered by social conventions to fulfill any kind of aspirations or ideals. A woman, as it is clearly stated in both novels, had no other means of being having a place in society than by acquiring respectability and money through a good marriage. To marry was the only vocation of a woman, as harton tells us.
Of course, there interferes a great difference between the two heroines here, because Madame Bovary, as her very title proves it, is already a married woman, while Lily in harton's book is in constant pursue of a redeeming marriage. But, essentially the frustration of the two heroines is the same, as Emma is as…...

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The American Experience: Andrew Carnegie- The Gilded Age. PBS Online. 1999. 1 Oct. 2006  http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/carnegie/gildedage.html .

Byatt, A.S. Scenes from Provincial Life. The Guardian. July, 27, 2002. Oct.2006  http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m2342/is_n1_v30/ai_18631915 .

Cahir, Linda Costanzo Solitude and Society in the Works of Herman Melville and Edith Wharton. New York: Greenwood Press, 1999

Deppman, Jed. "History with style: the impassible writing of Flaubert - Gustave Flaubert." Style. 1996. Oct 2006

Essay Topic Examples
1. The Gilded Age: A Facade of rosperity:
     Exploring how the seemingly prosperous era of the late 19th century, characterized by rapid industrialization and economic growth, masked severe social problems like income inequality, labor unrest, and political corruption.

2. The Robber Barons: Captains of Industry or Agents of Greed?:
     Analyzing the influential industrialists and financiers of the Gilded Age, such as John D. Rockefeller and Andrew Carnegie, to determine whether their practices and legacies were positive for the United States or if they contributed to the era's stark inequities.

3. Technological Innovations and Transformations:
     Detailing the technological advancements of the Gilded Age, such as the expansion of the railroad, the rise of the steel industry, and the invention of the telephone, and evaluating how these innovations changed the American economy and society.

4. Social Darwinism and the Ideology of the Gilded Age:
     Examining the influence of Social Darwinism on the era's…...

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Twain, Mark, and Charles Dudley Warner. The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today. American Publishing Company, 1873.

Morgan, J. Pierpont. Ledger of J. Pierpont Morgan: Manuscript Collection. Pierpont Morgan Library.

Carnegie, Andrew. The Gospel of Wealth. North American Review, 1889.

Riis, Jacob A. How the Other Half Lives: Studies Among the Tenements of New York. Scribner\'s, 1890.

Congressional Record. Proceedings and Debates of the Congress of the United States. Government Printing Office, Washington, D.C.

Although they were considered as the bastions and foundation of America's industries and commerce, they were also considered 'models' of the gradually increasing social inequality in the country, having conquered and controlled almost all businesses in the country: railroad lines, oil refineries, and steelworks. hey were also images of business owners who had subsisted to corrupting the government in order to win business contracts and biddings and conduct their business operations without any intervention from the government.
Rockefeller was an industrialized who specialized in building construction in New York City, and though he was rumored to be one of the Robber Barons, his philanthropic activities downplayed the negative image that his wealth and businesses impressed upon the American society. Similarly, Carnegie, owner of Carnegie Steel Company, was criticized for controlling 25% of the country's iron and steel production. However, like Rockefeller, Carnegie's philanthropic programs and activities became a point for…...

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The Robber Barons was a title given to America's richest industrialists (with assets and riches reaching to millions of dollars), whose wealth came from war-related industries, such as the manufacturing of steel, machinery, and other tools of the industrialized society, among others. America during the 19th century had attained economic power well beyond Germany's and Britain's; moreover, the American dollar was more than what it costs prior to the war, while ordinary people's wages had also increased. However, the wealth gap between the rich and the poor widened, and criticisms of the Robber Barons' unethical conduct and practice of businesses in the country became an issue. It was purported that these rich man had attained their millions by cheating on the supplies they provided the government, producing sub-standard quality products and supplies for soldiers during the war while imposing a higher price than the product's actual unit value.

Three of the most popular Robber Barons during the 19th century are John D. Rockefeller, Andrew Carnegie, and Henry Huntington. Although they were considered as the bastions and foundation of America's industries and commerce, they were also considered 'models' of the gradually increasing social inequality in the country, having conquered and controlled almost all businesses in the country: railroad lines, oil refineries, and steelworks. They were also images of business owners who had subsisted to corrupting the government in order to win business contracts and biddings and conduct their business operations without any intervention from the government.

Rockefeller was an industrialized who specialized in building construction in New York City, and though he was rumored to be one of the Robber Barons, his philanthropic activities downplayed the negative image that his wealth and businesses impressed upon the American society. Similarly, Carnegie, owner of Carnegie Steel Company, was criticized for controlling 25% of the country's iron and steel production. However, like Rockefeller, Carnegie's philanthropic programs and activities became a point for society to consider him a role model for the society rather than a Robber Baron. Collis Huntington, American railroad magnate, was the owner of the Central Pacific Railroad (in 1861) and founder and president of the Southern Pacific Railroad (founded in 1884). Huntington was known for being a strong lobbyist for railroad interests, a role that downplayed allegations that he was a Robber Baron, but instead, a champion of the railroad business and the people who make a living from this industry. These examples of the Robber Barons illustrate how philanthropy and actively participating in the lobbying process for legislation in the manufacturing industry have become strategies for the Robber Barons to continuously increase their wealth while at the same time maintaining a positive public image.

John Pierpont Morgan (1837 -- 1931) is one of the more controversial figures in the history of America and the world of finance. Described as a sui generis, a colossus (McCallum, p. 2), "the organizer" (Miller, 2003), "banker of last resort" (Andrews, 1999), and "the man of the hour" (Corey, p. 348), John Pierpont Morgan has also been called a "robber baron" (Andrews, 1999). Thus, it is evident that J.P. Morgan was a man who was as much praised for his actions in saving the American economy during the 1895 and 1907 crises, as he was criticized and derided for what was seen as his calculated control of the financial world and American business. Viewed from the lens of financial history, however, there can be little doubt that no person, either before or since, has left "upon the great art of money getting so important an influence." (Flynn, p. 452)…...

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1999. Accessed April 30, 2005: http://www.ultimatebusinessresource.com/downloads/uk/giantscigar.pdf.

Andrews, J. "American Financier." Insight on the News. June 28, 1999. Vol. 15: 24

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Trade Act of 1974 on Euro exchange rates?
Free Trade has been a key agenda for the past three presidents. In an expanding global market, tariffs and trade policies are more important today than they have been in the past. More and more countries are forming alliances such as the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), the Asian Alliance, and the European Union (EU). These trade agreements are meant to level the playing for all countries, both industrialized and emerging countries.

President Bush's trade policy is aimed at helping to generate American jobs, open markets to American products, and provide economic growth. Sometimes massive increases in imports can have a devastating effect on U.S. industries. [This has been the case for the U.S. steel Industry and is the issue addressed in Section 203 (B) (1) of the Trade Act of 1974. Foreign steel makers have had the luxury of government support…...

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Arnold, James. Steel spat could mean wider worries. BBC News.com. March 6, 2002.