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What hundreds of American public libraries owe to Carnegie's disdain for inherited wealth

  • Written by Arlene Weismantel, Senior Associate Director, Libraries, Michigan State University
imageThe Girard, Kansas Carnegie library.National Park Service

The same ethos that turned Andrew Carnegie into one of the biggest philanthropists of all time made him a fervent proponent of taxing big inheritances. As the steel magnate wrote in his seminal 1899 essay, The Gospel of Wealth:

“Of all forms of taxation this seems the wisest. By taxing...

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