History of the United States II / Unit 3 USH2 0312 short lesson, about 20 seconds
The Gospel of Wealth
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The idea
In an eighteen eighty-nine article Carnegie argued that the wealthy were trustees whose duty was to give their fortunes back to the public.
In practice
Libraries, hospitals, colleges and concert halls funded by one man's fortune.
Where people slip
He used social Darwinism to justify his success, and by his death in nineteen nineteen had given away most of his fortune.
Your place on the trail
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