Andrew Carnegie
“Andrew Carnegie was a critical agent in the triumph of industrial capitalism in the decades surrounding the turn of the twentieth century. “ (Nasaw, xii) At the same time, Carnegie, as once the French Enlightenment philosophers, and, after them, Alfred Nobel, believed that one could make this world better by promoting the dissemination of knowledge. Being an active American, he, unlike the French philosophers approached the matter practically — he had donated 95% of his earnings (the equivalent of the current 55 billion dollars) and wished he had time to donate everything. Andrew Carnegie was born on November 25, 1835 in a ...
