Andrew Carnegie and the Rise of Big Business

Author: Harold C. Livesay Book: Andrew Carnegie and the Rise of Big Business Summary: This biography of Andrew Carnegie starts off focusing on his family’s immigration to the United States of America and their reason for doing so. He was born in Scotland in 1835 and came to the United States in 1848. It then talks about his apprenticeships as both a manager and as a financier before going on to become one of the richest …

…was the federal governments intervention in American business with the anti-trust legislation. Carnegie had made it well know that the Carnegie Steel Company should never enter into any trust agreement. When one studies the life of Andrew Carnegie, one only then realizes the impact he has had on where the world is today. Regardless of which view you have of him, one can see that he was one of the greatest businessmen of all time.