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Meet you in hell : Andrew Carnegie, Henry Clay Frick, and the bitter partnership that transformed America
- Title
- Meet you in hell : Andrew Carnegie, Henry Clay Frick, and the bitter partnership that transformed America / Les Standiford.
- Author
- Standiford, Les.
- Publication
- New York : Crown Publishers, [2005], ©2005.
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- Description
- xiv, 319 pages : illustrations; 24 cm
- 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 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." "But their partnership had a dark side, revealed most starkly by their brutal handling of the Homestead Steel Strike of 1892. When Frick, acting on Carnegie's orders to do whatever was necessary, unleashed three hundred Pinkerton detectives, the result was the deadliest clash between management and labor in U.S. history. While blood flowed, Frick smoked ran one newspaper headline. The public was outraged. An anarchist tried to assassinate Frick. Even today, the names Carnegie and Frick cannot be uttered in some union-friendly communities."--BOOK JACKET.
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 311-313) and index.
- ISBN
- 1400047676
- LCCN
- 2004030947
- OCLC
- 57373773
- ocm57373773
- SCSB-5192003
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries