Sarah Knowles Bolton profiles the great philanthropists of the nineteenth century: John Lowell Jr. and his free lectures, Stephen Girard and his college for orphans, Andrew Carnegie’s libraries, Thomas Holloway’s sanatorium and college, Charles Pratt’s institute, James Lick’s observatory on Mount Hamilton and many more, telling how each fortune was made and given away.
An improving Gilded Age read on the origins of familiar institutions. Download the free EPUB.