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Andrew Carnegie: The Richest Man in the World

Season 9

Andrew Carnegie embodied the American dream: the immigrant who went from rags to riches.

Andrew Carnegie's life seemed touched by magic. He embodied the American dream: the immigrant who went from rags to riches, the self-made man who became a captain of industry, the king of steel. Yet "Carnegie is still, right throughout his life, the little boy in the fairy story, for whom everything has to be all right," says Owen Dudley Edwards, historian at the University of Edinburgh.

AIR DATE 1/2/97

About Andrew Carnegie: American Experience

Andrew Carnegie’s life embodied the American dream: the immigrant who went from rags to riches, the self-made man who became a captain of industry, the king of steel. He preached the obligation of the wealthy to return their money to the societies where they made it — then added, says Carnegie’s biographer, Joseph Frazier Wall, “a very revealing sentence.” He wrote, “and besides, it provides a refuge from self-questioning.”

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