Andrew Carnegie: Ruthless and rich: PBS documentary looks beyond his philanthropy.(Arts)(Television)

The Washington Times | January 19, 1997| | Copyright

"Andrew Carnegie was a flat-nosed Scot with a snow-white beard. Though he unleashed thousands of libraries across the world, he could be anything but Santa Claus."

So says "The Richest Man in the World," a two-hour documentary on the man most remember as a philanthropist. The program airs tomorrow night on PBS.

Narrated by David Ogden Stiers (of the "M*A*S*H" TV series), the film shows us a man who grew up in the squalor of Dunfermline, Scotland. His father was a skilled weaver, an idealist who was crushed by the Industrial Revolution. The family ...

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