When the news came through late last month that Thomas K. Gilhool, the trailblazing Philadelphia civil rights attorney, had died at the age of 81, I was in the middle of reading a biography of the titanic Pittsburgh philanthropist Andrew Carnegie. As I reflected on the life of Gilhool, who began his legal career at Dilworth Paxson as an indefatigable advocate for the disenfranchised, a particular Carnegie maxim came to mind: "The man who dies thus rich dies disgraced."