Table of Contents

Andrew Carnegie: Private Fortune and Public Life. Building a Public Library System. The Carnegie Library Program: Carnegie, Bertram and Community Grants. Responding to Carnegie's Library Grants. The Architecture of Carnegie Libraries. Life in a Carnegie Library Building. Carnegie Libraries One Hundred Years Later.

About the Author

THEODORE JONES is a New York City writer and editor specializing in architecture, preservation, and housing issues for The New York Times and the Times-Mirror Magazine Groups.