“Bostaph succinctly and effectively distills the career and economic context of steel magnate Andrew Carnegie, packing the punch of a book twice its length.”

Choice Reviews

“A short economic biography that captures the high points in Carnegie’s life and career. Bostaph’s book is well written and balanced in its evaluation of the wily Scot…. [A]s Samuel Bostaph shows in his excellent biography, a great entrepreneur does more than any politician to improve the quality of life for ordinary people.”

Future of Freedom

“Bostaph's insights about economic theory and history and his penetrating depiction of Carnegie's personality will establish this book as a definitive work on this key figure in American economic history.”

David Gordon

“Dr. Bostaph's economic biography of Andrew Carnegie is the one to read for students of one of America's most famous (and notorious) entrepreneurs.”

Thomas J. DiLorenzo, Loyola College of Maryland

“A perceptive biography of Andrew Carnegie, the great American industrialist and philanthropist, and it delightfully does not shrink from analyzing Carnegie’s minuses either.”

Morgan Reynolds, Texas A&M University

“Lucidly written and consistently interesting, Samuel Bostaph’s economic biography exhibits the very type of entrepreneur in business and philanthropy. The context for Carnegie’s enterprise, especially the social approval for what he did, receives full weight, as it should. America was a business-respecting civilization, and Carnegie flourished in it.”

Deirdre Nansen McCloskey, University of Illinois at Chicago, author of Bourgeois Equality (2016)