Bring back Andrew Carnegie

He practiced a different kind of "gospel of wealth"

Himself

My hometown library once displayed a giant portrait of Andrew Carnegie in the vestibule, and every time I skipped up the stairs to get new books, I’d blow a kiss to the dusty old guy.

Carnegie, a native of Scotland, gave away $60 million (back when that meant something) to build 1,689 libraries across his adopted country. Some $25,000 of that went…