John Dossett
Andrew Carnegie, Henry Clay Frick, and the Bitter Partnership That Transformed America 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 ... [... more]
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Meet You in Hell: Andrew Carnegie, Henry Clay Frick, and ...
From Amazon.com: The relationship between industrialists Andrew Carnegie and Henry Clay Frick is an illuminating window on American capitalism as well as a fascinating study of how a strong partnership can give way to vicious acrimony. Les Standiford [... more]
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S.N. Behrman
A startling number of masterpieces now in American museums are there because of the shrewdness of one man, Joseph Duveen, art dealer to John D. Rockefeller, Andrew Mellon, Henry Clay Frick, and William Randolph Hearst. In a series of articles ... [... more]
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Alexander Berkman
In 1892, Alexander Berkman, Russian émigré, anarchist, and lover of Emma Goldman, attempted to assassinate industrialist Henry Clay Frick. The act was intended both as retribution for the massacre of workers in the Homestead strike and as [... more]
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Martha Frick Symington Sanger
Henry Clay Frick, the world-famous art collector and steel tycoon, was a towering figure in America's "gilded age" of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The houses he built for himself and his family exemplify the great residences of [... more]
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In Sunlight, in a Beautiful Garden
From Amazon.com: From the very start, we know that many of the characters in Kathleen Cambor's haunting first novel will die before it's over. This lends a sepia-toned dignity to what is already a fairly somber tale. In Sunlight, in a Beautiful Garden [... more]
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In Their Time
How great business leaders "seized the zeitgeist of their times": I recently read Paths to Power, co-authored by Anthony Mayo and Nitin Nohria with Laura G. Singleton, as well as this book in which Mayo and Nohria also focus on some of the [... more]
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Andrew Carnegie
Outstanding story of one of history's greatest business men: This book is an outstanding account of the life of Andrew Carnegie, one of the greatest philanthropists and capitalists ever. The book is long but brilliantly written and an enthralling read. [... more]
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Carnegie
Keep an open mind, but read Peter Krass' "Carnegie".: I just finished Peter Krass' excellent biography, "Carnegie". Krass is a gifted story-teller, so his narrative style made this a coherent and engaging read despite the necessary 600 [... more]
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Prison Memoirs of an Anarchist
"Inhumanity is the keynote of stupidity in power" (p. 299): The book is the account of the anarchist Alexander's Berkman's experiences in prison after his botched attempt to assassinate the industrialist Henry Clay Frick, the monster who " [... more]
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Meet You in Hell: Andrew Carnegie, Henry Clay Frick, and ...
Author: Les Standiford Binding: Paperback Dewey Decimal Number: 338.7669142092273 EAN: 9781400047680 Edition: Reprint ISBN: 1400047684 Number Of Pages: 336 Publication Date: 2006-06-13 Release Date: 2006-06-13 [... more]
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Meet You in Hell: Andrew Carnegie, Henry Clay Frick, and ...
From Amazon.com: The relationship between industrialists Andrew Carnegie and Henry Clay Frick is an illuminating window on American capitalism as well as a fascinating study of how a strong partnership can give way to vicious acrimony. Les Standiford [... more]
CDN$32.95
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