Turns out they were both grade-A jerks, although in entirely different ways.īoth pulled themselves up by their bootstraps and worked their buns off to create massive companies - Carnegie in steel and Frick in coke (an essential ingredient in steel). And one of the more fascinating stories was the story of Andrew Carnegie and Henry Frick, the guy who endowed hundreds of libraries, and the guy who created my favorite museum. “A muscular, enthralling read that takes you back to a time when two titans of industry clashed in a battle of wills and egos that had seismic ramifications not only for themselves but for anyone living in the United States, then and now.” -Dennis Lehane, author of Mystic Riverĭid you see the miniseries last year on the robber barons, The Men Who Built America? It was great. a colloquial style that is mindful of William Manchester’s great The Glory and the Dream. “Standiford tells the story with the skills of a novelist. The tale is deftly set out by Les Standiford.” - Wall Street Journal we can add one Andrew Carnegie and Henry Clay Frick. “To the list of the signal relationships of American history. The result is an extraordinary work of popular history. 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. The author of Last Train to Paradise tells the riveting story of Andrew Carnegie, Henry Clay Frick, and the bloody steelworkers’ strike that transformed their fabled partnership into a furious rivalry. “The narrative is as absorbing as that of any good novel-and as difficult to put down.”- Miami Herald Standiford has a way of making the 1890s resonate with a twenty-first-century audience.”- USA Today

One desire to dominate business at any price. Two founding fathers of American industry.

Frick carnegie meet you in hell