Reviews on Andrew Carnegie and the Rise of Big Business
I read this whole book substantially in a day. Not because I love steel industry history necessarily....just know it's condom to say I'one thousand writing this review to put off a paper I have to write for class. Nevertheless, it was somewhat interesting. Andrew Carnegie was a man of polarities, every bit this book explains. He was a business tycoon in every sense, coming from a poor immigrant family he worked relentlessly to learn from equally many people as possible and dominate any industry he entered (telegraphy, railroads, speculating, and ultimately steel). He was one of the first monopoly-owners forth with fellas like Rockefeller and Morgan, but he ran his businesses with a very competitive mind. He was for labor rights and was charitable, yet his businesses also often hurt the mutual man and he definitely "out-maneuvered" a lot of other people into bankruptcy and unemployment in club to strengthen his own wealth. All that said, for an obscenely wealthy oligarch he was i of the skillful ones. He (more often than not) succeeded through shrewd business practices and true fiscal conservatism instead of inbound into price-fixing trusts, and upon retirement gave away his $300 million dollars worth of steel bonds, congenital millions of dollars worth of churches, libraries, and public services, and upon his death had truthfully given abroad essentially all of his obscene wealth to society, fulfilling his ain somewhat-more humane estimation of social Darwinism. Certainly non a perfect man, but a man of strong convictions and moral roots who as a whole was a blessing to our society. Without his steel industry, America may never take go the industrial power that information technology is. And while condign that level of rich requires an unfortunate level of greed/callousness, he compensated information technology with levels of charity unrivaled amidst his peers.
Brusk read with so many connections to business and immigration in U.S. History. I loved this book and continually refer to it when I teach this time period to my high school students.
More of volume on the fine art of business than a bio but easy reading.
A brief summary of the business life of Andrew Carnegie, the man who essentially created the modernistic steel industry. The volume touches on the principal points of his career, detailing some of his successes and how they came to be. The time line jumps around a bit nevertheless, information technology doesn't gloss over some of his flaws such as: fleeing the country every time he was in danger of bad press. A few facts: he took upwardly to half dozen months a twelvemonth off subsequently condign wealthy, he was highly hypocritical, he gave abroad a vast majority of his earnings for philanthropy, his main skill was in management and creating teams of experts to suggest him in all aspects of his business. Best summed upwards past a closing quote, "Carnegie had fulfilled the American dream in its fullest celebrity- poor immigrant boy to richest man in the globe". Quick easy read I would recommend.
Andrew Carnegie (1835-1919), a biography, the primary focus is on his career; While reading about Carnegie's fact-based business management tools, I was thinking, 'So it was Carnegie who started all this stressful modern cooperation empolyee's lives-everything measured and evaluated' Started reading about Carnegie, because I got curious well-nigh his gifts of libraries.
how a son of poor Scottish immigrant built and led industrial sized business organization.
Carnegie built up his fortune from being a outset generation venture capitalist and applied 'fact-based' management tools to build his steel empire.
Apparently, this was a wrong volume for that purpose.
At that place'southward just a handful of description of his 'giving libraries' story.
From the concluding chapter, "He (Carnegie) gave 3,000 libraries costing vi million, and used by millions of people a day in 1925."
Read this for a grade called "Economical History of the The states Since 1865" or equally the professor for that class prefers to call it, "American Commercialism 1865-Nowadays." The author is quite sympathetic to Carnegie, just without mythologizing him. Livesay shows how Carnegie had many fortuitous encounters and positions during his rise which allowed him to go the steel magnate that he did, and depicts his flaws, specially his all-consuming ruthlessness. Overall, it sympathetically portrays Carnegie while using him to mythologize the early days of American commercialism after the Civil War. If you're looking for a short primer on Carnegie's origins, ascension, and attainment of peak ability--and the context in which it occurred--this book is a proficient pick merely should be read with a critical center.
A concise look at Andrew Carnegie as a man of affairs. Rather dry and certainly sympathetic to "Andy," it's however an interesting look into his ascension to power from "poor telegraph male child/immigrant" to "richest homo in the world." However, the writer doesn't turn a blind eye to Carnegie's unsavory characteristics. To accept been a wing on the wall for some of his business dealings would take been an interesting thing indeed. One is left to wonder in this age of reexamination of Us leaders, does Carnegie'south terminate of life philanthropy brand up for his ruthlessness in business? Just every bit I ponder the writings and inventions of Jefferson and whether they make upward for his employ of slavery, I may never quite decide.
i idea "and the Rise of Big Business" was an afterthought for the title, but no... the book focuses more on the history of the railroad/steel businesses than it does Andy's life. granted, Andy was a raging workaholic and, thus, much of his life WAS business organization; nevertheless, i would liked to have read more of his behind-the-scene, personal life details to get a fuller sense of who he really was as a person.
If you like business and you similar history, you should read this short (200 pages) volume. I didn't know much nigh Carnegie, so I found this reasonably interesting, just certainly non revelatory. This is not a thought-provoking book unless you lot are interested in the business organisation side and business lessons of Carnegie'southward life (every bit opposed to Titan, Rockefeller'southward 700 page, highly nuanced biography).
Considering that the publisher sent it to me blind as a potential textbook supplement, I wasn't expecting much. It's a commonsensical read, just information technology did help me to empathise 2 of the major industries in western PA: coal and steel.
I admittedly did not stop the book. How a man comes to be is far more than interesting than how he stays that mode. In that tale of becoming, Livesay describes both of the people, time, and identify who moulded Carnegie and the fiery will that urged him into beingness.
THIS IS Non A BIOGRAPHY - it'southward an explanation of how large business worked. Very dry out.
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