for Pittsburgh IPers SCS HISTORY SEMINAR: April 1

[Dave Farber <dave () farber net>]

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Subject: SCS HISTORY SEMINAR: April 1


THE SCS HISTORY SEMINAR: Presentation and Booksigning
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Tuesday, 1 April 2003
4:30 pm -- Wean Hall 7500


        PETER KRASS
        Author of the new publication, "Carnegie"


        "ANDREW CARNEGIE: RUTHLESS EMPIRE BUILDER
         AND PIONEER PHILANTHROPIST"


In his new book, "Carnegie", Peter Krass offers an insightful
and fresh look at the life and mind of Andrew Carnegie, a complex
man whose contradictions divided America during the Gilded Age.
Krass captures the drama of the times amid the burgeoning
industrial empires of John D. Rockefeller, J.P. Morgan and others
while revealing the essence of a man torn between building his
own fortune on the backs of his workers and pioneering the
philanthropy movement in America.

In writing this first full biography of Carnegie in 30 years,
Peter Krass has separated fact from legend by relying heavily
on letters, diaries and other writings by primary and peripheral
characters in Carnegie's life, extensive archives, and materials
previously unavailable to biographers, including critical letters
between Carnegie and his top lieutenant and nemesis,
Henry Clay Frick.

A "must" presentation for everyone in SCS who thinks they
know all about Andrew Carnegie.  Come learn more about
the man we mention daily. The author will be available before
and after the presentation to meet with visitors and to
autograph copies of his book.

BIO
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William Danziger was one of thousands who toiled in Andrew
Carnegie's steel mill in the late 1800s and early 1900s. Among
other jobs, he changed and repaired the lining of the furnaces,
a particularly grueling, hot job since they were never completely
shut down. Apparently, the only happiness Danziger knew was when
he was drunk. He died at age 59 and is buried in a dreary plot
outside Pittsburgh.

Nearly a century later, Danziger's great-grandson PETER KRASS has
written about Carnegie, a complex figure of the Gilded Age,
condemned as a bloodstained tyrant, yet revered as a saintly,
peace-seeking benefactor. Carnegie is Krass's eighth book for
John Wiley & Sons.

Krass recently served as script consultant for a BBC television
program on Andrew Carnegie, scheduled to air this winter. He is
currently working on Blood & Whiskey: The Life and Times of Jack
Daniel, an American Legend.

Krass's previous books include the acclaimed "Wisdom Series", among
them "The Book of Business Wisdom", "The Book of Leadership Wisdom",
and "The Book of Management Wisdom", which have been translated into
a number of different languages and distributed around the world.
He has also written for Investor's Business Daily and Across the Board.

Peter Krass is a graduate of Lafayette College and Seton Hall
University and a former marketing manager for Dun & Bradstreet.
He lives in Hanover, New Hampshire, with his family.


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