| Book Reviews | The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, 132.3

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Carnegie's Model Republic: Triumphant Democracy and the British-American Relationship. By A. S. Eisenstadt. (Albany: State University of New York Press, 2007. xv, 204 pp. Notes, index. $59.50.)
Readers of this book will soon realize that its principal figure was not only a world-famous industrialist but also an accomplished writer and political activist. Andrew Carnegie, a self-educated man with only one year of formal schooling, produced an important book, Triumphant Democracy. It took four years to write and was described by one critic as a "valuable essay in comparative political sociology" (xv).	1
In his study, Carnegie's Model Republic, A. S. Eisenstadt effectively demonstrates that the canny Scot from Dunfirmline believed that knowledge and scholarship were the tools required to advance social welfare. He further notes that Carnegie considered socialism to be a spurious doctrine that appealed to the dregs of society and taught dependence rather than independence.	2
A citizen of America and Britain, Carnegie became known as the "star-spangled Scotsman" because he carried his perpetual message to the United Kingdom. Carnegie believed—and he proclaimed—that American society was democratic and humane and provided a useful model for Britain. Carnegie's book encouraged each nation to identify its problems and to look to other societies for ways to solve them.	. . .

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