Author photo of “Oliver Napoleon Hill” from the December 1908 issue of Bob Taylor’s Magazine.

The Gospel of Carnegie

Did success author Napoleon Hill ever meet the world’s richest man?

Success author Napoleon Hill described his first encounter with steel magnate Andrew Carnegie — “the richest man that the richest nation on earth ever produced” — in terms that brought to mind Moses receiving the tablets on Mount Sinai. Hill said that he interviewed the industrialist in 1908 and received marching…