Cover of Meet You in Hell: Andrew Carnegie, Henry Clay Frick, and the Bitter Partnership That Changed America

Meet You in Hell: Andrew Carnegie, Henry Clay Frick, and the Bitter Partnership That Changed America

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

The author of Last Train to Paradisetells the riveting story of Andrew Carnegie, Henry Clay Frick, and the bloody steelworkers' strike that transformed their fabled partnership into a furious rivalry. Set against the backdrop of the Gilded Age, Meet You in Hellcaptures 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 result is an extraordinary work of popular history.

Read more

Also available as a Random House AudioBook and an eBook

Audience
adult
Length
medium · 336 pages

Click a tag to see books like this one that share it. Point at it (on a phone, tap it) for less of it instead.

Read it? Sign in to help tag it.

Liked Meet You in Hell: Andrew Carnegie, Henry Clay Frick, and the Bitter Partnership That Changed America? Here’s where I’d start.

These suit anyone who liked Meet You in Hell: Andrew Carnegie, Henry Clay Frick, and the Bitter Partnership That Changed America. Sign in and mark a few books for picks shaped around your own taste.

  1. Mellon: An American Life Shares biography, history, nonfiction
  2. The Heartbreak of Aaron Burr Shares history, nonfiction, biography
  3. The Trouble with Tom: The Strange Afterlife and Times of Thomas Paine Shares history, nonfiction, biography
  4. Morgan: American Financier Shares biography, history, nonfiction

“People who read Meet You in Hell: Andrew Carnegie, Henry Clay Frick, and the Bitter Partnership That Changed America tend to reach for these next.”

  1. Dark Genius of Wall Street: The Misunderstood Life of Jay Gould, King of the Robber Barons
  2. The Tycoons: How Andrew Carnegie, John D. Rockefeller, Jay Gould and J.P. Morgan Invented the American Supereconomy
  3. Andrew Carnegie
  4. American Colossus: The Triumph of Capitalism, 1865-1900

“If you want more of the same (history about american history), start with these.”

  1. Appetite for America: How Visionary Businessman Fred Harvey Built a Railroad Hospitality Empire That Civilized the Wild West
  2. Brave Companions
  3. Drive!: Henry Ford, George Selden, and the Race to Invent the Auto Age
  4. In Search of History

“If it was the biography that hooked you, try one of these.”

  1. The Account of Mary Rowlandson and Other Indian Captivity Narratives
  2. The Statesman and the Storyteller: John Hay, Mark Twain, and the Rise of American Imperialism
  3. Tales from a Revolution: Bacon's Rebellion and the Transformation of Early America
  4. The Roosevelts and the Royals: Franklin and Eleanor, the King and Queen of England, and the Friendship That Changed History

“These start from a similar idea, even if they go somewhere else with it.”

  1. The Ones Who Hit the Hardest: The Steelers, the Cowboys, the '70s, and the Fight for America's Soul
  2. Texas! Trilogy
  3. David Crockett: The Lion of the West
  4. Hetty: The Genius and Madness of America's First Female Tycoon