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Andrew Carnegie
David Nasaw
#UB7042
Paperback, 878 pages; 2007 (2006)
$20.00
 Members' Price: $17.00
I belong to a bizarre book club: we each read a different book. And then at the monthly meeting, we tell each other what we liked or disliked about the books we read. One month we decided we (all women) would read biographies of men—and then at the next meeting, we'd each talk about whom we had taken to bed with us that month. (It was a silly double entendre: we meant, of course, whose biography we had read in bed. Middle-aged women have to have the occasional giggle.) My choice was Andrew Carnegie by David Nasaw. Carnegie's family emigrated to New York from Scotland when he was a teenager. He was short of stature, but ambitious, hardworking, charming, clever—and an avid reader. He became one of the richest men in American history, and his love of books led him to help establish libraries in cities and towns all across his adopted land. It's a great American story!
(EE)
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