The Autobiography of Andrew Carnegie
A weaver's son from Dunfermline arrives in America with nothing, works as a bobbin boy at thirteen, and ends up selling the largest steel company in the world.
Things worth knowing
- Carnegie's first appearance in print was a letter to the Pittsburgh Dispatch arguing that messenger boys should be let into Colonel James Anderson's four-hundred-volume library, which had been opened only to working boys.
- Between 1886 and 1919 his donations of more than $40 million paid for 1,679 new library buildings across America.
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Every chapter has the recording and the same chapter as text. Open both if you like: the text is the words you are hearing.
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1 Chapter One, Part One 16 min
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2 Chapter One, Part Two 17 min
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3 Chapter Two 24 min
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4 Chapter Three 23 min
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5 Chapter Four 16 min
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6 Chapter Five 19 min
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7 Chapter Six, Part One 19 min
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8 Chapter Six, Part Two 16 min
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9 Chapter Seven 28 min
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10 Chapter Eight 28 min
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11 Chapter Nine 27 min
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12 Chapter Ten, Part One 18 min
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13 Chapter Ten, Part Two 19 min
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14 Chapter Eleven 32 min
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15 Chapter Twelve 25 min
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16 Chapter Thirteen 30 min
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17 Chapter Fourteen 21 min
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18 Chapter Fifteen 16 min
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19 Chapter Sixteen 16 min
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20 Chapter Seventeen 23 min
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21 Chapter Eighteen 27 min
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22 Chapter Nineteen 24 min
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23 Chapter Twenty 25 min
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24 Chapter Twenty-one 28 min
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25 Chapter Twenty-two 20 min
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26 Chapter Twenty-three 15 min
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27 Chapter Twenty-four 26 min
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28 Chapter Twenty-five 13 min
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29 Chapter Twenty-six 15 min
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30 Chapter Twenty-seven 14 min
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31 Chapter Twenty-eight 15 min
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32 Chapter Twenty-nine 11 min
Where this comes from
US public domain: first published 1920, before the 1930 cutoff. Author d.1919, so also clear in life+70 jurisdictions.
Cover image: Glass-plate photographic portrait of Andrew Carnegie.
Narration: text-to-speech.
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