Andrew Carnegie and the Rise of Big Business by William Olsen

Andrew Carnegie and the Rise of Big Business written by Harold C. Livesay, is a narrative account of Andrew Carnegie's life as a businessman that Chronicles the events on his life as a poor bobbin boy to become later the world's richest man and his ways of doing business. This account gives insight into how a boy went from rags to riches Andrew Carnegie was born in Dunfermline, Scotland. Because of a decline of weavers …

…industrial trends of the time is not a coincidence. Carnegie realized early on that railroads and steel were the industries of the future and made strives in the improvement of the industry itself. He used all technological advances to his advantage, even funding technological research himself. Without the hard work and business sense of Andrew Carnegie along with the entrepreneurs of the time, America would not have become the economic superpower that it is today.