Carnegie's Model Republic: Triumphant Democracy and the British-American Relationship

Examines Carnegie's book Triumphant Democracy and his efforts to promote closer ties between America and Britain.

Andrew Carnegie (1835–1919) has long been known as a leading American industrialist, a man of great wealth and great philanthropy. What is not as well known is that he was actively involved in Anglo-American politics and tried to promote a closer relationship between his native Britain and the United States. To that end, Carnegie published Triumphant Democracy in 1886, in which h...