Meet you in hell
Subtitle: Andrew Carnegie, Henry Clay Frick, and the bitter partnership that transformed America
By: Les Standiford.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Crown Publishers
Published: 2005
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 319
Subjects: Carnegie, Andrew, -- 1835-1919; Frick, Henry Clay, -- 1849-1919; Carnegie Steel Company -- History; Steel industry and trade -- United States -- History; Homestead Strike, Homestead, Pa., 1892; Industrialists -- United States -- Biography; Capitalists and financiers -- United States -- Biography
Genres: Biography
Description: 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.

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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Gauntlet; title: The stage is set; title: By the bootstraps; title: Convergence of the twain; title: The king of coke; title: Good for the goose, good for the gander; title: Rock and a hard place; title: Firm hand at the wheel; title: Two strikes; title: Strike three; title: The wagons circle; title: A finish fight; title: Early warning; title: Rockets' red glare; title: Over the edge; title: The better part of valor; title: While Rome burned; title: The occupation of Homestead; title: Anarchy in Pittsburgh; title: Not an inch; title: Bury the past; title: Death do us part; title: Great divide; title: Gathering storm; title: Put asunder; title: Devil in the details; title: Money, happiness; title: In the wings; title: Earthly goods.