Andrew is born in Dunfermline, Scotland, to Margaret and Will Carnegie. Will Carnegie is a skilled weaver, and the Carnegies are one of many working-class families in Dunfermline. A younger son ...

At a time when America struggled -- often violently -- to sort out the competing claims of democracy and individual gain, Carnegie championed both. He saw himself as a hero of working people, yet ...

THE life-histories of remarkable men always have interest and value. Few are more fascinating than that of Andrew Carnegie, who began his business career as a telegraph messenger boy at two and a ...