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Life and Career of Entrepreneur Andrew Carnegie


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Life and Career of Entrepreneur Andrew Carnegie
This paper examines the life and career of 19th Century American entrepreneur, Andrew Carnegie, focusing on his early life and how he rose to power.
1,350 words (approx. 5.4 pages) | 4 sources | 1991 United States


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"This study will examine the life of Andrew Carnegie, concentrating on his early life and how he rose to power.

The first obvious conclusion to be drawn from the life of Andrew Carnegie is that he was a man of monumental contradictions.

For example, an article in the North American Review of June, 1889, entitled "The Gospel of Wealth," written by Carnegie himself, praised "the concentration of business, industrial and commercial, in the hands of the few, and the law of competition between these, as being not only beneficial, but essential to the progress of the race" . This declaration in praise of cut-throat capitalism and economic inequality seems to befit a man "whose industrial empire, which was soon to be recapitalized at 320 million ... "

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APA Citation:

Life and Career of Entrepreneur Andrew Carnegie (2012, January 15). Retrieved February 12, 2012, from http://www.academon.com/Essay-Life-and-Career-of-Entrepreneur-Andrew-Carnegie/18627

MLA Citation:

"Life and Career of Entrepreneur Andrew Carnegie" 15 January 2012. Web. 12 Feb. 2012. <http://www.academon.com/Essay-Life-and-Career-of-Entrepreneur-Andrew-Carnegie/18627>




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