Henry Clay Frick
Subtitle: the gospel of greed
By: Samuel A. Schreiner, Jr.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Published: 1995
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 308
Subjects: Frick, Henry Clay, 1849-1919.; Businesspeople -- United States -- Biography.; Capitalists and financiers -- United States -- Biography.
Description: Henry Clay Frick remains the quintessential American capitalist. This is the first full-length biography of this giant of industry. Henry Clay Frick is the least known, the most enigmatic, of all the so-called robber barons who stalked the land during America's Gilded Age. A taciturn man, Frick shunned publicity throughout his life and left a legacy of silence far into the future.

Frick remains known today for how he spent his money - mostly on the dazzling art works that comprise the world-famous Frick collection in New York City - rather than for how he made it. Henry Clay Frick reveals how a man from a small Pennsylvania town came to take center stage in the drama of America's industrial development.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [292]-298) and index.