Burton W. Folsom Jr. is Charles Kline professor of history and management at Hillsdale College. He is the author of The Myth of the Robber Barons, now in its seventh edition, and Uncle Sam Can’t Count, co-authored with his wife Anita Folsom.
Andrew Carnegie: An Economic Biography, by Samuel Bostaph (Lexington Books, 2015), 124 pages.
Andrew Carnegie, that remarkable steelmaker, was a key player in the rise of the United States to becoming a world power in the late 1800s. ...