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The Many Legacies of Andrew Carnegie

PAUL SOLMAN, NewsHour Economics Correspondent:

'Twas some nights before Christmas at the Carnegie Deli, pastrami and pickles aimed right at the belly. The salamis were hung by the counter with care, hoping the revelers soon would be there.

OK, it's the holiday season, but why, you may wonder, the Carnegie Deli? Well, it was a stop on our Carnegie tour of New York. Landmarks named for the robber baron philanthropist which we visited with historian David Nasaw, author of a new book on Andrew Carnegie, about whom Nasaw remains ambivalent.

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