Andrew Carnegie: The Self-Made Ideal
Streaming video - 2015
This lecture examines the notion of the “self-made man” as it pervaded Gilded Age America. Investigate why this idea took on unprecedented popularity in the 19th century, how it was strongly promoted by figures from Horatio Alger to Andrew Carnegie, and explore how the ideal became entwined with social Darwinism..
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- Educational films
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[San Francisco, California, USA] :
The Great Courses
2015.
2016. - Language
- English
- Online Access
- A Kanopy streaming video
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Film - Physical Description
- 1 online resource (streaming video file) (31 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
- Playing Time
- 00:30:08
- Format
- Mode of access: World Wide Web.
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- AVAILABLE FOR USE ONLY BY IOWA CITY AND RESIDENTS OF THE CONTRACTING GOVERNMENTS OF JOHNSON COUNTY, UNIVERSITY HEIGHTS, HILLS, AND LONE TREE (IA).
