Bibliograph

Meet you in hell, Andrew Carnegie, Henry Clay Frick, and the bitter partnership that transformed America, Les Standiford

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Meet you in hell, Andrew Carnegie, Henry Clay Frick, and the bitter partnership that transformed America, Les Standiford

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 311-313) and index

resource.biographical

contains biographical information

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Meet you in hell

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

57373773

Responsibility statement

Les Standiford

Sub title

Andrew Carnegie, Henry Clay Frick, and the bitter partnership that transformed America

Summary

Here is history that reads like fiction: the riveting story of two founding fathers of American industry -- Andrew Carnegie and Henry Clay Frick -- and the bloody steelworkers' strike that transformed their fabled partnership into a furious rivalry. Author Les Standiford begins at the bitter end, when the dying Carnegie proposes a final meeting after two decades of separation, probably to ease his own conscience. Frick's reply: "Tell him that I'll meet him in hell." It is a fitting epitaph. Set against the backdrop of the Gilded Age, a time when Horatio Alger preached the gospel of upward mobility and expansionism went hand in hand with optimism, Meet You in Hell is a classic tale of two men who embodied the best and worst of American capitalism. Standiford conjures up the majesty and danger of steel manufacturing, the rough-and-tumble of late-nineteenth-century big business, and the fraught relationship of "the world's richest man" and the ruthless coke magnate to whom he entrusted his companies. - Jacket flapExamines the relationship between two of the founding fathers of American industry--Andrew Carnegie and Henry Clay Frick--and the Homestead Steel Strike of 1892, which led to the dissolution of their partnership

Table Of Contents

Note from the author -- Prelude : Eye of the needle -- Part one : Grand design. Gauntlet -- The stage is set -- By the bootstraps -- Convergence of the twain -- The king of coke -- Good for the goose -- A rock and a hard place -- Firm hand at the wheel -- Two strikes -- Part two : Blood on the river. Strike three -- The wagons circle -- A finish fight -- Early warning -- Rockets' red glare -- Over the edge -- The better part of valor -- While Rome burned -- Part three : Unraveling. The occupation of Homestead -- Anarchy in Pittsburgh -- Not an inch -- Bury the past -- Death do us part -- Great divide -- Gathering storm -- Put asunder -- Devil in the details -- Money, happiness -- In the wings -- Earthly goods

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