385 pages : 23 cm Editor's note signed: John C. Van Dyke Includes bibliographical references (pages 375-376) Parents and childhood -- Dunfermline and America -- Pittsburgh and work --Colonel Anderson and books -- The telegraph office -- Railroad service -- Superintendent of the Pennsylvania -- Civil War period -- Bridge-building -- The iron works -- New York as headquarters -- Business negotiations -- The age of steel -- Partners, books, and travel -- Coaching trip and marriage -- Mills and the men -- The homestead strike -- Problems of labor -- The "gospel of wealth" -- Educational and pension funds -- The peace palace and Pittencrieff -- Matthew Arnold and others -- British political leaders -- Gladstone and Morley -- Herbert Spencer and his disciple -- Blaine and Harrison -- Washington diplomacy -- Hay and McKinley -- Meeting the German Emperor