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Editor’s note: In her just released book, “A New Era of Philanthropy,” Dimple Abichandani, a philanthropy leader and adviser, imagines herself as a podcast host interviewing Andrew Carnegie, often ...
The “Gospel of Wealth” Essays and Other Writings, edited by David Nasaw, is a collection of Carnegie’s writings, selected by his biographer, David Nasaw, on capitalism, philanthropy, and money. In ...
Long before Musk, Zuck, and Bezos, Andrew Carnegie (pronounced car-NE-gie) was one of the richest men in the world. But unlike his modern-day peers, Carnegie dedicated much of his life to getting ...
Carnegie spent a large portion of his wealth setting up more than 2,500 public libraries and supporting universities and colleges, his main philanthropic priorities. By the time of his death in ...
This year marks the centennial of Carnegie’s death. Vartan Gregorian, president of the Carnegie Corporation, reflects on the significance of Carnegie's role in the development of the American public ...
In the spring of 1889, Andrew Carnegie published an essay on money. If possession confers knowledge, then there was no greater expert on the subject: Carnegie was possibly the richest American who ...
Carnegie was not a fan of extravagance, ostentation or inherited wealth. “Why should men leave great fortunes to their children?” he asked in “ The Gospel of Wealth, " an 1889 essay.
Founder Bill Gates in a statement, cited the 1889 Andrew Carnegie essay "The Gospel of Wealth" that argued the wealthy have a responsibility to return their resources to society as he said he ...
Andrew Carnegie has been admitted to the honorary freedom of the Worshipful Company of Musicians. At a dinner given by the company in his honor he referred to the immense influence which music ...
It was the height of the Gilded Age in 1889, and Andrew Carnegie, a pioneer in the steel industry, laid out why he would be donating the bulk of his wealth to causes and not to his family members ...
Founder Bill Gates in a statement, cited the 1889 Andrew Carnegie essay "The Gospel of Wealth" that argued the wealthy have a responsibility to return their resources to society as he said he ...