Andrew Carnegie

This week's spirit guest is the American industrialist Andrew Carnegie.  After a career in which he created incredible wealth, he became a famous philanthropist in which he gave all of his wealth to charity.  You will find his advice and story very interesting. 

Of all the self-made millionaires of the Gilded Age (and there were many, such as John Rockefeller, son of a literal snake oil salesman who became the world’s first billionaire), nobody can rival bootstrapping tenacity of Cassie Chadwick. She was a drifter from Canada who set herself up as wife of a rich doctor in Cleveland before moving on to a much bigger con involving the richest man in the world, Andrew Carnegie. With little education, no financial training, and at a time when women didn't even have the vote, Cassie Chadwick (Elizabeth Bigley) moved up the chain of bankers, getting each banker to loan her more than the one before telling each one a simple lie, she was none other than the illegitimate daughter of Carnegie and she was due to inherit his entire fortune. By the time the police caught up to her she had wrecked the banking system of Cleveland, sending one unfortunate banker to his grave and causing the collapse of a major bank. When the trial was held it was a media event that pushed the trial of Teddy Roosevelt off the front pages with a climactic moment when Andrew Carnegie appeared to face his accuser. Cassie was eventually convicted but not before taking others with her and leaving a legacy as the biggest con woman in the United States only to be eclipsed by Charles Ponzi.Today’s guest is William Hazelgrove, author of the book Greed in the Gilded Age: The Brilliant Con of Cassie Chadwick. We explore the excesses of this age, and the very thin line between radical reinvention and outright deception.

“If you want to be happy, set a goal that commands your thoughts, liberates your energy, and inspires your hopes.” —Andrew Carnegie Subscribe in Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you’re listening right now. If you’d like to suggest a heroic figure to be covered on the show, send an email to Jon@ObjectiveStandard.org. Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/objectivestandard Twitter: https://twitter.com/ObjStdInstitute LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/objectivestandardinstitute/ Also check out: The Autobiography of Andrew Carnegie and the Gospel of Wealth: https://amzn.to/3h2V9NK “Andrew Carnegie: The Richest Man in the World” by Scott Holleran: https://theobjectivestandard.com/2010/11/andrew-carnegie/ The Capitalist Manifesto by Andrew Bernstein: https://amzn.to/32YGaMt

“A man who acquires the ability to take full possession of his own mind may take possession of anything else to which he is justly entitled.” —Andrew Carnegie Subscribe in Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you’re listening right now. If you’d like to suggest a heroic figure to be covered on the show, send an email to Jon@ObjectiveStandard.org. Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/objectivestandard Twitter: https://twitter.com/ObjStdInstitute LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/objectivestandardinstitute/ Also check out: “Andrew Carnegie: The Richest Man in the World” by Scott Holleran: https://theobjectivestandard.com/2010/11/andrew-carnegie/ The Capitalist Manifesto by Andrew Bernstein: https://amzn.to/32YGaMt

The group explores the later part of Andrew Carnegie's life and how the guy he left in charge while on vacation started a literal war with a workers union.Contact: HistoricHole@gmail.com On Instagram & Twitter @HistoricHole Disclaimer: History is not safe for work and neither is Historic Hole. This podcast is uncensored and contains explicit language.

The group explores the early part of Andrew Carnegie's life and how his family survived on meat pies because his father was a deadbeat who sent his kids off to work at an early age.Contact: HistoricHole@gmail.com On Instagram & Twitter @HistoricHole Disclaimer: History is not safe for work and neither is Historic Hole. This podcast is uncensored and contains explicit language.

Lynn and Pete are joined in this episode of The Mountain Life by the author, entrepreneur, speaker, and podcaster James Whittaker . James has edited and annotated Andrew Carnegie's Mental Dynamite by Napolean Hill which reveals how Andrew Carnegie went from penniless immigrant to one of the wealthiest people -- and greatest philanthropists -- the world has ever seen.

This show continues our discussion on 9/03, which explored the connections amongst peace, justice and the Golden Rule. We continue discussing the relationship amongst these concepts, focusing today on the connection between impartiality and justice - a connection which Andrew Carnegie observed in 1907. According to Carnegie, justice “forbids men to be judges when they are parties to the issue”. Yet, Immanuel Kant seems to posit existence of an inescapable “inner judge” which can, impartially, judge the extent to which one is complying with the moral law. In today’s show we explore these apparent contradictory claims and the relationship amongst justice, impartiality and peace, using the remarks of John Lewis (1940-2020) to guide us in this dialogue.

We follow Andrew through his final years as a crusader for World Peace and that sadly ends in World War I and his own decline. 

Andrew now is officially the richest man in the world. What to do? What to do? Gifting the money will be several full-time jobs.