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[[Image:Andrew carnegie.jpg|thumb|right|200px|Andrew Carnegie]]
 
[[Image:Andrew carnegie.jpg|thumb|right|200px|Andrew Carnegie]]
'''Andrew Carnegie''' (1835-1919) was a Scottish-American industrialist and founder of the [[Steel industry, history |steel industry in the United States]]. He sold all his steel interests in 1901 to [[J.P. Morgan]] (who merged thm into [[U.S. Steel]].  Carnegie became for some years the richest man in the world. He gave away his fortune to a series of philanthropies in America, Scotland and the British Empire, promoting libraries, higher education, science, and world peace.  Rejecting the "robber baron" epithet hurled by radicals, he opposed imperialism and was one of the most visible leaders of the [[Efficiency Movement]] in the [[Gilded Age]] and during the [[Progressive Era]] was a major proponent of philanthropy through the "Gospel of Wealth."  
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'''Andrew Carnegie''' (1835-1919) was a Scottish-American industrialist and founder of the [[Steel industry|steel industry in the United States]]. He sold all his steel interests in 1901 to [[J.P. Morgan]] (who merged thm into [[U.S. Steel]].  Carnegie became for some years the richest man in the world. He gave away his fortune to a series of philanthropies in America, Scotland and the British Empire, promoting libraries, higher education, science, and world peace.  Rejecting the "robber baron" epithet hurled by radicals, he opposed imperialism and was one of the most visible leaders of the [[Efficiency Movement]] in the [[Gilded Age]] and during the [[Progressive Era]] was a major proponent of philanthropy through the "Gospel of Wealth."  
    
==Early career==
 
==Early career==
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