Carnegie's Model Republic: Triumphant Democracy and the British-American Relationship

A Brief Note on Sources

A Brief Note on Sources WHAT WERE THE SUBSTANCE and importance of Andrew Carnegie’s Triumphant Democracy? The sources I have consulted in trying to answer this question appear in the notes I have cited in my chapters. I have situated myself at the intersecting point of Carnegie and the place of his book in the British-American relationship. Because the literature on this subject is so vast, I have tapped only a fraction of it that relates directly to my interest . Strict limitations of space have restricted my bibliographical citations. As to the manuscript materials I have used, my principal source has been the collection of the Andrew Carnegie Papers in the Manuscripts Division of the Library of Congress. These are to be found in some 300 containers, of which the first twenty-four background the years through 1893, when the revised edition of Triumphant Democracy appeared. It was helpful that the materials of the Carnegie Papers had been so thoroughly canvassed by Burton J. Hendrick, the first of Carnegie’s principal biographers . Under Hendrick’s guidance, Doubleday, Doran, which published the biography, also reissued all of Carnegie’s writings. For my account of Carnegie’s road to Triumphant Democracy, I have also depended on Joseph Frazier Wall’s biography, which won the 1970 Bancroft award. Other books about Carnegie are noteworthy: Harold C. Livesay, Andrew Carnegie and the Rise of Big Business (Boston: Little, Brown, 1975); Louis M. Hacker, The World of Andrew Carnegie, 1865–1901 (Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott, 1968); Peter Krass, Carnegie (Hoboken: John Wiley & Sons, 2002); James A. Mackay, Little Boss: Life of Andrew Carnegie (Edinburgh: Mainstream, 1997), and David Nasaw, Andrew Carnegie (New York: The Penguin Press, 2006). My use of contemporary sources has been extensive (as indicated by my notes). Given the center of my interest and theme, however, my use of manuscript materials has been limited. I have consulted the papers of 199 James Bryce at the Bodleian Library at Oxford, of Albert Shaw at the New York Public Library, and of William Gladstone at what was then the British Museum in London. I first encountered the idea of the Pan-Anglian persuasion when I studied the life and contributions of Charles McLean Andrews, one of America’s most distinguished writers on colonial history. His papers and library were then at his home at 424 St. Ronan Street in New Haven. They were later transferred to the Sterling Memorial Library of Yale University; they contain 100 boxes of his manuscript materials. Professor Andrews’ Pan-Anglianism was judicious and highly informed. His collection is a treasure of Pan-Anglian historiography. In addition to the books cited in the notes, the following have been particularly helpful. Cannadine, David. The Decline and Fall of the British Aristocracy. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1990. Colley, Linda. Britons: Forging the Nation, 1707–1837. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1992. Crook, David Paul. The North, the South, and the Powers, 1861–1865. New York: John Wiley & Sons, 1974. Erickson, Charlotte. Invisible Immigrants: Adaptation of English and Scottish Immigrants in Nineteenth-Century America. London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1972. Hobsbawm, Eric. The Age of Empire 1875–1914. New York: Pantheon, 1987. Kammen, Michael. A Machine that Would Go of Itself: The Constitution in American Culture . New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1994. Lease, Benjamin. Anglo-American Encounters: England and the Rise of American Literature. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1981. Wood, Gordon S. The Americanization of Benjamin Franklin. New York: Penguin Books, 2004. 200 CARNEGIE’S MODEL REPUBLIC ...