Over the course of his life, Carnegie helped to fund more than 2,500 libraries around the world-about 1,700 of which were in the United States. Andrew Carnegie Carnegie Library in Dallas, Texas Carnegie wanted to help build a social institution that would facilitate that. The phrase “palaces for the people” actually comes from Andrew Carnegie who was known as a titan of the Gilded Age and one of the wealthiest people in the world when he lived.Ĭarnegie was a ruthless capitalist, famous for strike-breaking and doing things that promoted inequality in many parts of the world, but he was also an immigrant, and was committed to the idea that the US was a country where people could get ahead in life.
Eric Klinenberg is the author of a book called Palaces for the People: How Social Infrastructure Can Help Fight Inequality, Polarization, and the Decline of Civic Life.
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