Autobiography of Andrew Carnegie
Andrew Carnegie · 1920
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About the book
From bobbin boy at a dollar twenty a week to the richest man in the world, then the harder project of giving it all away. Carnegie's own telling — telegraph office, steel, Homestead, libraries — and still the best rags-to-riches ledger ever balanced.
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Part 1 · A weaver's son in Dunfermline. The first six slides, free.
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Picture a boy in Dunfermline watching his father carry the last finished web of damask to the big manufacturer. At home his mother waits to hear whether there will be a new web, or a stretch of idleness with nothing coming in.
William Carnegie was a skilled handloom weaver, one of the town's small masters who owned his own looms and worked at home. Then the steam loom arrived. His son says plainly that he did not see the revolution coming, and his looms sank in value while he kept working the old way.
Andrew borrowed Burns for what he saw: a decent man made to "beg a brother of the earth to give him leave to toil." It was burnt into his heart, he writes, and the resolve to cure that came then and there.
Inside the course
20 parts- Dunfermline, and the weaver's sonFree above
- America: bobbin boy at twelve
- Colonel Anderson's library, open on Saturdays
- The telegraph office: luck favours the prepared boy
Questions
Is Autobiography of Andrew Carnegie free to read in Astra Trainer?
Yes. The full book opens free in the app’s reader, in English, German, French, Italian, Portuguese, and Russian.
What is the short course?
20 short parts that walk through the book’s key ideas in slides, each with a quick quiz. The first six slides are free to try on this page.
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