Meet you in hell : Andrew Carnegie, Henry Clay Frick, and the bitter partnership that transformed America /
Les Standiford.
Bok Engelsk 2005 Les. Standiford,· Electronic books
| Utgitt | New York : : Crown Publishers, , c2005.
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| Omfang | 1 online resource (xiv, 319 p. ) : ill. ;
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| Utgave | 1st ed.
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| Opplysninger | Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph. - Gauntlet -- The stage is set -- By the bootstraps -- Convergence of the twain -- The king of coke -- Good for the goose, good for the gander -- Rock and a hard place -- Firm hand at the wheel -- Two strikes -- Strike three -- The wagons circle -- A finish fight -- Early warning -- Rockets' red glare -- Over the edge -- The better part of valor -- While Rome burned -- 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.. - Examines 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.. - 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 flap.
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| Emner | Carnegie, Andrew, , 1835-1919.
Frick, Henry Clay, , 1849-1919. Carnegie Steel Company - History. Capitalists and financiers - United States Vis mer... |
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| ISBN | 0-307-23837-7
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