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04264apm a2200541Ka 4500 001 91E2650A522311E1B3ED76D16AFF544E 003 SILO 005 20210120021219 006 m h 007 sz usnnnn|||ed 007 cr nna|||||||| 008 080619s2008 cau eng d 020 $a 1415953457 (sound recording : OverDrive Audio Book) 020 $a 9781415953457 (sound recording : OverDrive Audio Book) 035 $a (OCoLC)232330438 040 $a TEFOD $b eng $c TEFOD $d SILO $d JIC $d SILO 043 $a n-us--- 050 14 $a HD9519.C2 $b S83 2008ab 082 04 $a 338.7/669142/092273 $2 22 100 1 $a Standiford, Les. 245 1 $a Meet you in hell $b Andrew Carnegie, Henry Clay Frick, and the bitter partnership that transformed America / $c Les Standiford. 260 $a Santa Ana, CA : $b Books on Tape, $c [2008] 306 $a 105643 538 $a Requires OverDrive Media Console (file size: 157354 KB). 538 $a Mode of access: World Wide Web. 500 $a Downloadable audio file. 500 $a Title from: Title details screen. 500 $a Unabridged. 511 0 $a Read by John H. Mayer. 500 $a Duration: 10:56:43. 520 $a 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 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. Enamored of Social Darwinism, the emerging school of thought that applied the notion of survival of the fittest to human society, both Carnegie and Frick would introduce revolutionary new efficiencies and meticulous cost control to their enterprises, and would quickly come to dominate the world steel market. But their partnership had a dark side, revealed most starkly by their brutal handling of the Homestead Steel Strike of 1892. When Frick, acting on Carnegie's orders to do whatever was necessary, unleashed three hundred Pinkerton detectives, the result was the deadliest clash between management and labor in U.S. history. WHILE BLOOD FLOWED, FRICK SMOKED ran one newspaper headline. The public was outraged. An anarchist tried to assassinate Frick. 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. Artfully weaving the relationship of these titans through the larger story of a young nation's economic rise, Standiford has created an extraordinary work of popular history. 610 20 $a Carnegie Steel Company $x History. 650 0 $a Steel industry and trade $z United States $x History. 650 0 $a Homestead Strike, Homestead, Pa., 1892. 600 10 $a Carnegie, Andrew, $d 1835-1919. 600 10 $a Frick, Henry Clay, $d 1849-1919. 650 0 $a Industrialists $z United States $v Biography. 650 0 $a Capitalists and financiers $z United States $v Biography. 655 0 $a Audiobooks. 700 1 $a Mayer, John H. 710 2 $a Books on Tape, Inc. 776 1 $c Original $z 9781415920039 $w (OCoLC)58725541 856 40 $u http://wilbor.lib.overdrive.com/ContentDetails.htm?ID=D97A3AB1-2C07-4DA0-BF60-F70611243332 941 $a 1 952 $l GUPF501 $d 20120720010657.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=91E2650A522311E1B3ED76D16AFF544E 994 $a C0 $b JIC 300 $a 1 Online ResourceInitiate Another SILO Locator Search