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Andrew Carnegie
Title: Andrew Carnegie
Category: History
Details: Words: 1266 | Pages: 5.4 (approximately 235 words/page)
Andrew Carnegie
One of the captains of industry of 19th century America, Andrew Carnegie helped build
the formidable American steel industry, a process that turned a poor young man into one
of the richest entrepreneurs of his age. Later in his life, Carnegie sold his steel
business and systematically gave his collected fortune away to cultural, educational
and scientific institutions for "the improvement of mankind."
Carnegie was born in Dunfermline, the medieval capital of Scotland, in 1835. The …showed first 75 words of 1266 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 1266 total…the first to call for a "league of nations" and he built a "a
palace of peace" that would later evolve into the World Court. His hopes for a civilized
world of peace were destroyed, though, with the onset of World War I in 1914. Louise
said that with these hostilities her husband's "heart was broken." Carnegie lived for
another five years, but the last entry in his autobiography was the day World War I
began
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