The Investor's Shelf — one person
Andrew Carnegie
Founder of Carnegie Steel; sold to J.P. Morgan in 1901 and gave away the proceeds.
8 biographies about them
Biographies about them 8
Two major biographies thirty-six years apart, plus the Homestead strike literature.
David Nasaw · 2006 · The standard modern life, built on newly opened papers.
Joseph Frazier Wall · 1970 · The scholarly biography Nasaw's book displaced but did not erase.
Robert Hessen · 1975 · The operator Carnegie promoted; the best view of how the mills ran.
William Serrin · 1992 · A century of the town Carnegie built and broke.
David P. Demarest · 1992 · Documentary history of the strike, assembled from contemporary sources.
Peter Krass · 2002 · Harsher on the gap between Carnegie's preaching and his practice.
Les Standiford · 2005 · Narrative of the Frick partnership and Homestead.
Quentin R. Skrabec · 2010 · The partner who did the things Carnegie preferred not to sign.