THE VOICE OF AMERICA’S LEGENDARY ENTREPRENEUR AND PHILANTHROPIST
CARNEGIE, Andrew.
The Empire of Business.
New York, Doubleday, Page & Company, 1902.
8vo, pp. [x], 345, [3, blank]; title printed in red and black, photographic portrait of Andrew Carnegie with tissue cover to frontispiece; a very good, clean, crisp copy in the original publisher’s maroon cloth, title in gilt on spine and cover, top edge gilt, uncut outer and lower edges; extremities a little rubbed, spine lightly sunned.
First edition (with ‘April, 1902’ statement printed on the copyright page) of this elegantly printed collection of essays by Andrew Carnegie, one of America’s most notable industrialists and philanthropists.
Carnegie here outlines his insights into the economic predicament of America as it moved into the twentieth century. Steel and oil industries, protectionist tariff policies and national budget are only a part of Carnegie’s concerns: his eloquence soars as he extols and demonstrates personal virtues of frugality, integrity, and commitment to work as the instruments of success in the pursuit of wealth.
The essays had been only previously printed separately at different times in various publications, including the New York Evening Post, the New York Journal and Macmillan’s Magazine.
