Chicago Daily News, 1910. Courtesy: The Library of Congress Many influences carved Carnegie's personality, including his Scottish roots, his family's struggle with poverty, the egalitarian spirit ...

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 ...

Family quarters were built in dozens of New ... libraries funded more than a century ago by the industrialist Andrew Carnegie. Is there a voracious reader anywhere, after all, who doesn’t ...