Biography & Memoir

Autobiography of Andrew Carnegie

Andrew Carnegie

Autobiography of Andrew Carnegie

💼 Non-fiction 👤 Biography & Memoir 💰 Business & Money

404 episodes · full original text

From bobbin boy and telegraph messenger to steel king of America: Carnegie on luck, nerve, partners, the Homestead strike, and why the man who dies rich dies disgraced.

Every word as the author wrote it, split into 1-minute episodes.

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Parents and Childhood

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20

Dunfermline and America

21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35

Pittsburgh and Work

36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50

Colonel Anderson and Books

51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60

The Telegraph Office

61 62 63 64 65 66 67 68 69 70 71

Railroad Service

72 73 74 75 76 77 78 79 80 81 82 83 84 85 86 87 88 89 90 91 92 93

Superintendent of the Pennsylvania

94 95 96 97 98 99 100 101 102 103 104 105 106 107 108 109 110

Civil War Period

111 112 113 114 115 116 117 118 119 120 121 122 123 124 125 126

Bridge-Building

127 128 129 130 131 132 133 134 135 136 137 138 139 140 141

The Iron Works

142 143 144 145 146 147 148 149 150 151 152 153 154 155 156 157 158 159 160 161 162 163 164

New York As Headquarters

165 166 167 168 169 170 171 172 173 174 175 176 177 178 179 180 181 182 183

Business Negotiations

184 185 186 187 188 189 190 191 192 193 194 195 196 197 198 199

The Age of Steel

200 201 202 203 204 205 206 207 208 209 210 211 212 213 214 215 216 217

Partners, Books, and Travel

218 219 220 221 222 223 224 225 226 227 228 229 230

Coaching Trip and Marriage

231 232 233 234 235 236 237 238 239 240

Mills and the Men

241 242 243 244 245 246 247 248 249

The Homestead Strike

250 251 252 253 254 255 256 257 258 259 260 261 262 263

Problems of Labor

264 265 266 267 268 269 270 271 272 273 274 275 276 277 278 279 280 281

The “Gospel of Wealth”

282 283 284 285 286 287 288 289 290 291 292 293 294 295

Educational and Pension Funds

296 297 298 299 300 301 302 303 304 305 306 307 308 309

The Peace Palace and Pittencrieff

310 311 312 313 314 315 316 317 318 319 320 321 322 323 324 325

Matthew Arnold and Others

326 327 328 329 330 331 332 333 334 335 336 337 338

British Political Leaders

339 340 341 342 343 344 345 346 347

Gladstone and Morley

348 349 350 351 352 353 354 355 356 357 358 359 360 361 362

Herbert Spencer and His Disciple

363 364 365 366 367 368 369 370 371

Blaine and Harrison

372 373 374 375 376 377 378 379 380

Washington Diplomacy

381 382 383 384 385 386 387 388

Hay and McKinley

389 390 391 392 393 394 395 396 397

Meeting the German Emperor

398 399 400 401 402 403 404