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May 10, 2005 · Set against the backdrop of the Gilded Age, Meet You in Hell captures the majesty and danger of steel manufacturing, the rough-and-tumble of the business world, and the fraught relationship between “the world’s richest man” and the ruthless coke magnate to whom he entrusted his companies.
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Jun 13, 2006 · Even today, the names Carnegie and Frick cannot be uttered in some union-friendly communities. Resplendent with tales of backroom chicanery, bankruptcy, philanthropy, and personal idiosyncrasy, "Meet You in Hell is a fitting successor to Les Standiford's masterly "Last Train to Paradise.
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- Les Standiford
Sep 10, 2014 · Meet you in hell : Andrew Carnegie, Henry Clay Frick, and the bitter partnership that transformed America Bookreader Item Preview
Sep 25, 2020 · A book about the bitter partnership of Andrew Carnegie and Henry Clay Frick, two industrialists who clashed in the 1892 Homestead steel strike. The title refers to Frick's famous response to Carnegie's offer to meet before they died.
The dramatic centerpiece of Les Standiford's dual biography of Andrew Carnegie and Henry Clay Frick is the bloody clash between striking steelworkers and imported Pinkerton "detectives" at Carnegie's Homestead, PA plant in early July of 1892.
Les Standiford tells the story of the two men in Meet You in Hell, a book that draws its title from Frick's angry rejoinder to Carnegie's late-in-life attempt at reconciliation. Carnegie and Frick, in Standiford's estimation, represented all that was good and bad in American capitalism.
- Les Standiford
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Jul 6, 2005 · Excerpt: 'Meet You In Hell' Set in America's gilded age at the end of the 1800s, this book details the soured friendship between Andrew Carnegie and Henry Clay Frick. From their competition...
