The Carnegie Boys: The Lieutenants of Andrew Carnegie That Changed America

by Quentin R. Skrabec Jr.

In the 1890s, the Carnegie Veterans Association began as a group of boyhood friends and older Andrew Carnegie steel partners united to share business ideas, but it evolved into a powerful secretive network in American business circles. By 1925, these Carnegie lieutenants controlled more than 60 percent of the country's industrial assets. Haunted by their past with Carnegie Steel, they demanded a new ethical relationship with labor and adopted a philanthropic...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0786464550
• ISBN13: 9780786464555
• Release Date: August 2012
• Publisher: McFarland & Company
• Length: 247 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.9" x 8.9"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher