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His legacy lives on through his foundation, and most especially the structures he endowed upon his fellow man.

REFERENCES

Carnegie, A. And Gordon Hunter. The Autobiography of Andrew Carnegie and The Gospel of Wealth. Signet, 2006.

Garrison, L.D. Apostles of Culture: Public Librarian and American Society.

University of Wisconsin Press, 2003.

Koch, T.W. A Book of Carnegie Libraries. BiblioBazaar, 2009.

Lorenzen, M. "Deconstructing the Carnegie Libraries: The Sociological Reasons

Behind Carnegie's Millions to Public Libraries." Illinois Public Library

Project, n.d., Cited in:

http://www.lib.niu.edu/1999/il990275.html

Morris, C. The Tycoons: How Andrew Carnegie, John D. Rockefeller, J. Gould,

And J.P. Morgan Invented the American Supereconomy. Holt, 2006.

Nasaw, Daniel. Andrew Carnegie. Penguin, 2007.

Van Slyck, A. Free to All: Carnegie Libraries and American Culture, 1890-

1920. University of Chicago Press, 1998.

Walsh, G. History of Andrew Carnegie and Carnegie Libraries. Cited in:

http://andrewcarnegie.tripod.com/

See: L.D. Garrison, Apostles of Culture: Public Librarian and American Society (University of Wisconsin Press, 2003). Numerous sources laud Carnegie for his philanthropy and dedication to libraries across the world. Among which some of the more interesting are: Glenn Walsh, History of Andrew Carnegie and Carnegie Libraries. Cited at http://www.andrewcarnegie.cc

There are literally hundreds of biographies and biographical articles about Carnegie available. Among the newest is a combination of edited autobiography and Carnegie's own Gospel of Wealth: Andrew Carnegie and Gordon Hunter, The Autobiography of Andrew Carnegie and The Gospel of Wealth. (Signet, 2006).

Carnegie was a complex man, and while the focus of this analysis is on his work with the library system, he could not have given so generously without his astute knowledge of contemporary economics, his drive to succeed in business, and his ability to compete with the giants of his time -- Rockefeller, Gould, and Morgan. While he is best remembered for his philanthropy, his management style and thoughts on employees, wages, and business in general are more akin to his time period than the benevolence one might focus on today.

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See, for example. C. Morris, The Tycoons: How Andrew Carnegie, John D. Rockefeller, J. Gould, and J.P. Morgan Invented the American Supereconomy. (Holt, 2006).

See: A. Van Slyck, Free to All: Carnegie Libraries and American Culture, 1890-1920. (University of Chicago Press, 1998). This work is more of a cultural history and tribute to the idea of Carnegie's librarianship and patronage. It examines the funding, design, staffing, and use of monumental urban central libraries and more functional urban branch libraries and small-town libraries. This is interpreted in the context of the professionalization of both architecture and librarianship and of the role of class in the large urban areas and of gender in the small towns. Van Slyck's study is based on extensive archival research concentrating primarily on Carnegie libraries in 13 cities and towns in 11 states.

T.W. Koch, A Book of Carnegie Libraries. (BiblioBazaar, 2009), 2-14.

See the major article and additional links at: "Carnegie Libraries: The Future Made Bright." Cited in: http://www.nps.gov/history/nr/twhp/wwwlps/lessons/50carnegie/50carnegie.htm. Another, more contemporary theory, shows that there was more than philanthropy involved in Carnegie's focus on libraries. This view posits that Carnegie knew that a new class of workers and managers would be necessary in order to allow business and industry to evolve. By donating libraries, and encouraging literacy and higher education, Carnegie could seed the future and improve the sociological direction of society. See M. Lorenzen, "Deconstructing the Carnegie Libraries: The Sociological Reasons Behing Carnegie's Millions to Public Libraries." (Illinois Periodicals Online). Cited in: http://www.lib.niu.edu/1999/il990275.html.

Daniel Nasaw, Andrew Carnegie. (Penguin, 2007), inclusive.

G. Walsh, A History of Andrew Carnegie and Carnegie….....

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