dishonestly if we can; honestly if we must." — Mark Twain-1871 Andrew Carnegie, 1910. Library of Congress During the "Gilded Age," every man was a potential Andrew Carnegie, and Americans who ...

The government is larger today than it was back then, so there was less interest on the part of the oligarchs of the day to ...

His family arrived in the United States penniless, but by the end of the Gilded Age, Andrew Carnegie had amassed an unimaginable fortune. As the nation rapidly industrialized, Carnegie cornered ...

(RNS) — “The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today” by Mark ... not to say a theology, summed up by Andrew Carnegie in an 1889 essay, “The Gospel of Wealth,” in which the steel baron wrote ...

WOLF: During his first term, he was a big fan of Andrew Jackson, but now he’s a big fan of William McKinley, maybe the final president of the Gilded Age ... before him — Carnegie was involved ...