His family arrived in the United States penniless, but by the end of the Gilded Age, Andrew Carnegie had amassed an unimaginable fortune. As the nation rapidly industrialized, Carnegie cornered ...

Under pressure from Carnegie's mother, Margaret, the family left Scotland to join her sisters in Pittsburgh. But the Carnegies had simply traded one life of penury for another. Andrew Carnegie's ...

This was the vision of the steel magnate Andrew Carnegie, one of the most famous ... Any surplus, beyond provisions for one’s family, should be treated as “trust funds” to be used during ...