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Thursday, August 1, 2013

How Andrew Carnegie Turned His Fortune Into A Library Legacy

"How Andrew Carnegie Turned His Fortune Into A Library Legacy." National Public Radio / Susan Stamberg.
Washington: NPR.com, August 1st 2013.
"Andrew Carnegie was once the richest man in the world. Coming as a dirt poor kid from Scotland to the U.S., by the 1880s he'd built an empire in steel — and then gave it all away: $60 million to fund a system of 1,689 public libraries across the country."