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Resource Materials

YOUTH BIBLIOGRAPHY

Andrew Carnegie: Builder of Libraries by Simon Charnan. Children’s Press, a

Division of Grolier Publishing, 1997. A book in the Community Builders Series.

Grade 3 and above.

Andrew Carnegie: Captain of Industry by Dana Meachen Rau. 2006

Andrew Carnegie: Industrial Philanthropist by Laura Bufano Edge.

Minneapolis: Lerner Publ. Co., 2004. Lerner Junior Biographies. Grade 7 and

above.

Andrew Carnegie: Steel Tycoon by John S. Bowman. Englewood Cliffs, New

Jersey: Silver Burdett Press, 1989. A book in The American Dream Series.

The Autobiography of Andrew Carnegie by Andrew Carnegie. Boston:

Northeastern University Press, 1986; original printing 1920. Grade 9 and above.

Carnegie Libraries Across America: A Public Legacy by Theodore Jones. New

York: John Wiley and Sons, 1997. Grade 8 and above.



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Cobblestone Magazine, “Andrew Carnegie: From Poor Immigrant to Wealthy

Philanthropist”, April 1999 Edition. Grade 4 and above. Includes the following

articles:

“From Telegraph to Railroad” by Fran Haraway

“An Empire of Steel” by Kathiann M. Kowalski

“Loving Partnership” by Eileen Sheridan (marriage)

“The Homestead Strike of 1892” by Craig El. Blohm

“Carnegie Libraries: Free to the People” by Glenn A. Walsh

“To Die Rich Is to Die Disgraced” by Carol G. Traub

The Many Lives of Andrew Carnegie by Milton Meltzer. New York: Franklin

Watts, 1997. Grade 7 and above.

Skibo by Joseph Frazier Wall. New York: Oxford University Press, 1984.

Ancient family estate in Scotland. Grade 8 and above.

ANDREW CARNEGIE BIOGRAPHIES

The Autobiography of Andrew Carnegie by Andrew Carnegie. Boston:

Northwestern University Press, 1986; original printing 1920. (suitable for

children)

Andrew Carnegie by David Nasaw. 2006

Andrew Carnegie by Joseph Frazier Wall. 1989

Andrew Carnegie and the Rise of Big Business by Harold C. Livesay. 1975

(Library of American Biography)

Andrew Carnegie: Captain of Industry by Dana Meachen Rau. (suitable for

children)

Andrew Carnegie: Industrial Philanthropist by Laura Bufano Edge. 2004

(suitable for children)

Andrew Carnegie: Robber Baron as American Hero by James Thomas Baker.



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Andrew Carnegie : Steel King and Friend to Libraries by Zachary Kent. 1999

(Historical American Biographies).

Andrew Carnegie: Steel Tycoon by John S. Bowman. Englewood Cliffs, New

Jersey: Silver Burdett Press, 1989. (suitable for children)

Carnegie by Peter Krass.

Carnegie: the richest man in the world by Raymond Lamont-Brown. 2005

The Many Lives of Andrew Carnegie by Milton Meltzer. New York: Franklin

Watts, 1997. (suitable for children)

Meet You in Hell: Andrew Carnegie, Henry Clay Frick, and the bitter

partnership that transformed America by Les Standiford. 2006

Skibo by Joseph Frazier Wall. New York: Oxford University Press, 1984.

(suitable for children)

CARNEGIE LIBRARIES

Carnegie Libraries of Pittsburgh Web site: www.clpgh.org

Andrew Carnegie: His Contribution to the Public Library Movement (a

commemorative address) by Charles C. Williamson.

A Book of Carnegie Libraries by Theodore Wesley Koch.

The Carnegie Corporation and the Development of American College Libraries,

1928-1941 by Neil S. Radford (American Library Association).

Carnegie Denied: Communities Rejecting Carnegie Library Construction Grants,

1898-1925 by Robert Sidney Martin.

Carnegie Grants for Library Buildings, 1890-1917 by Durand R. Miller of the

Carnegie Corporation of New York. A list of library buildings, public and

academic, erected with funds provided by Andrew Carnegie and the Carnegie

Corporation of New York.



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Carnegie Libraries Across America: A Public Legacy by Theodore Jones.

New York: John Wiley and Sons, 1997. (suitable for children)

Carnegie Libraries: Their History and Impact on American Public Library

Development by George S. Bobinski.

Free to all: Carnegie Libraries and American Culture, 1890-1920 by Abigail Ayres

Van Slyck.

Libraries and Andrew Carnegie’s Challenges by Vartan Gregorian of Carnegie

Corporation of New York.

A Portfolio of Carnegie Libraries (being a separate issue of the illustrations from

“a book of Carnegie libraries”) by Theodore Wesley Koch.

VIDEOS, WEB SITES and PLACES TO VISIT

“The Richest Man in the World: Andrew Carnegie”, a video biography by Austin

Hoyt, a WGBH Boston Production. Part of PBS’s “American Experience People

and Events” series, 1999. www.PBS.org/education. Available at shopPBS.org or

at PBS Home Video, 2100 Crystal Drive, Arlington, Virginia 22202. (suitable for

children)

“Andrew Carnegie: Prince of Steel”; part of the A&E Biography: Visionaries

Series (biography). Call Schlessinger Video Productions at 800-843-3620.

The Carnegie Corporation of New York Web site:

www.carnegie.org

Andrew Carnegie, a Tribute, at Library of Pittsburg Web site:

www.clpgh.org/exhibit/carnegie.html

Also, visit the Carnegie Museum of Art, the Carnegie Museum of Natural

History, the Carnegie Science Center and the Andy Warhol Museum run by the

Carnegie Institute of Pittsburg, Pennsylvania. www.carnegie.org/musuems.



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MISCELLANEOUS

Bone Wars: The Excavation and Celebrity of Andrew Carnegie’s Dinosaurs by

Tom Rea. 2001

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