Interesting book review of the new Andrew Carnegie biograph compliments of the Economist. Growing up in Pittsburgh, one couldn't venture very far without running into something named after Mr. Carnegie. Read the review and maybe it will spurn you to pick up the book, it made me throw it on my to read list.

ANDREW CARNEGIE is to his biographers, friendly and hostile alike, the hardest American robber baron to fathom. Somehow they have to try to understand themselves, and make coherent to others, a dramatic change in their subject's behaviour. For this steelman, a Scots-American hated by his exploited workers and his swindled rivals, became so benevolent in old age that he gave away almost all of a fortune calculated here at $100 billion in today's money.