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Andrew Carnegie (1835–1919) was the founder of the Carnegie Steel Company (which later became U.S. Steel) and one of the wealthiest men in the world in the late 1800s. A Scottish-American, Carnegie is famous for amassing enormous wealth while paying low wages to his workers, and then giving away his fortune to libraries, universities, and the arts, and to projects such as world peace.
Andrew Carnegie (1835–1919) was the founder of the Carnegie Steel Company (which later became U.S. Steel) and one of the wealthiest men in the world in the late 1800s. A Scottish-American, Carnegie is famous for amassing enormous wealth while paying low wages to his workers, and then giving away his fortune to libraries, universities, and the arts, and to projects such as world peace.
Carnegie was the author of "The Gospel of Wealth." Though a Christian for much of his life, he had a crisis in faith in his elder years.
Carnegie was the author of "The Gospel of Wealth." Though a Christian for much of his life, he had a crisis in faith in his elder years, becoming an atheist, and a proponent of proponent of the One World Government, in
the form of a "league of nations."<ref>http://www.carnegie.org/results/13/index.html</ref> He was
also an advocate enacting the Death Tax to force wealthy Americans to give most of their wealth to the government upon their death, rather than their families.<ref>http://www.carnegie.org/sub/about/pessay/pessay00.html</ref>
[[Image:Andrew carnegie.jpg]]
[[Image:Andrew carnegie.jpg]]
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