Title: The Giants of Finance: Andrew Carnegie
Headings: The Giants of Finance: Andrew Carnegie
The Giants of Finance: Andrew Carnegie
The Scottish Immigrant
Messenger to Railroad Superintendent
Forging an Empire With Iron and Steel
Buying When Others Sold
Henry Frick and Homestead
The Homestead War
Morgan Buys Out Carnegie
Rewriting History

Content: 1 Carnegie Steel became the centerpiece of U.S. Steel, a trust controlling 70% of the country's steel production. Carnegie began his philanthropic phase with one of the world's largest personal fortunes. Rewriting History
From 1901 until his death in 1919, Carnegie gave away the modern equivalent of billions of dollars. Perhaps remembering his trouble getting books as a youth, he funded over 2,500 public libraries in the U.S. and abroad—all bearing the Carnegie name. He also financed Carnegie Hall, Carnegie Mellon University, The Carnegie Institution of Washington, The Carnegie Hero Fund Commission, The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, The Carnegie Foundation, and so on. 1
Although perhaps a little too fond of his own name, Carnegie shared the stage with Rockefeller as a new breed of industrialist, driven to build a fortune only to give it away. Even now, very few extremely wealthy people disperse their entire fortunes. In doing so, Carnegie was able to replace his image as one of the hard-nosed robber barons with that of a modern-day Santa Claus—an image reinforced by his white beard and twinkling eyes. His considerable business and investment expertise may be forgotten over time, but thanks to his philanthropy, his name will not be.