Henry Clay Frick: The Gospel of Greed
Categories: Biographies & Memoirs, Business & Money
Samuel Schreiner tells the life of Henry Clay Frick, the coke magnate and partner of Andrew Carnegie who became one of the richest men in America. The biography covers Frick's rise in the Pittsburgh coal fields, his role in the violent Homestead Strike of 1892, the assassination attempt against him, his feud with Carnegie and his later life as an art collector.
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- Shane Parrish: “A decent biography of one of history’s relatively unknown capitalists and member of the so called robber-barrons. Henry Clay Frick, a friend of the Mellons and for most of his life Carnegie, shunned publicity and left an enduring legacy of silence.”