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Andrew Carnegie (1835–1919) has long been known as a leading American industrialist, a man of great wealth and great philanthropy. What is not as well known is that he was actively involved in Anglo-American politics and tried to promote a closer relationship between his native Britain and the United States. To that end, Carnegie published Triumphant Democracy in 1886, in which he proposed the American federal republic as a model for solving Britain’s unsettling problems. On the basis of his own experience, Carnegie argued that America was a much-improved Britain and that the British monarchy could best overcome its social and political turbulence by following the democratic American model. He expressed a growing belief that the antagonism between the two nations should be supplanted by rapprochement. A. S. Eisenstadt offers an in-depth analysis of Triumphant Democracy, illustrating its importance and illuminating the larger current of British-American politics between the American Revolution and World War I and the fascinating exchange about the virtues and defects of the two nations.

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  1. Cover
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  1. Frontmatter
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  1. CARNEGIE’S MODEL REPUBLIC
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  1. Contents
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  1. Acknowledgments
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  1. Introduction
  2. pp. xi-xv
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  1. 1. The Road to Triumphant Democracy
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  1. 2. Major Themes
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  1. 3. The Antithesis of Models
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  1. 4. Reconciling Ideals
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  1. 5. The British Critique
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  1. 6. Affirming America
  2. pp. 95-116
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  1. 7. The Pan-Anglian Persuasion
  2. pp. 117-154
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  1. 8. Conclusion
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  1. Notes
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  1. A Brief Note on Sources
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  1. Index
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