Author: Martha Frick Symington Sanger
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 418
Book Description
Chronicles Helen Clay Frick's lifelong commitment to social welfare, the environment, and her purchase of many significant works of art for her private collection, the Frick Collection in New York, the University of Pittsburgh teaching collection, and the Frick Art Museum.
Helen Clay Frick
Author: Martha Frick Symington Sanger
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 418
Book Description
Chronicles Helen Clay Frick's lifelong commitment to social welfare, the environment, and her purchase of many significant works of art for her private collection, the Frick Collection in New York, the University of Pittsburgh teaching collection, and the Frick Art Museum.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 418
Book Description
Chronicles Helen Clay Frick's lifelong commitment to social welfare, the environment, and her purchase of many significant works of art for her private collection, the Frick Collection in New York, the University of Pittsburgh teaching collection, and the Frick Art Museum.
Triumphant Capitalism
Author: Kenneth Warren
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Pre
ISBN: 0822972212
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 447
Book Description
Best remembered today for his fierce opposition to labor, especially during the Homestead Strike of 1892, Henry Clay Frick was also one of the most powerful and innovative industrialists of the nineteenth century.After consolidating the vital bituminous coke fields of the Connellsville region in western Pennsylvania, Frick became the most important of Andrew Carnegie's partners and the manager of Carnegie's steel interests. Later, his bitter oppositon to Carnegie was one factor in the events leading to the 1901 purchase of the Carnegie Steel Company by J. P. Morgan and the formation of the Unites States Steel Corporation.Kenneth Warren is the first historian to be given unrestricted access to the extensive Frick archives in Pittsburgh. Drawing on Frick's personal and business papers, as well as the records of the H. C. Frick Coal & Coke Company, the Carnegie Steel Company, and the U.S. Steel Corporation, Warren provides a wealth of new insights into Frick's relationship with such contemporaries as Carnegie, J. P. Morgan, Charles Schwab, and Elbert Gary. He describes and analyzes the key decisions that formed labor and industrial policy in the iron and steel industry during a period of growth that remains unparalled in American business history.Not only an industrial biography of a driving force in American industry and the organization of American business, Triumphant Capitolism, now available in paperback, makes a major contribution to our understanding of the history of the basic industries, the shaping of society, locality, and region - and thereby of laying the foundations for the value systems and landscapes of present-day America.
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Pre
ISBN: 0822972212
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 447
Book Description
Best remembered today for his fierce opposition to labor, especially during the Homestead Strike of 1892, Henry Clay Frick was also one of the most powerful and innovative industrialists of the nineteenth century.After consolidating the vital bituminous coke fields of the Connellsville region in western Pennsylvania, Frick became the most important of Andrew Carnegie's partners and the manager of Carnegie's steel interests. Later, his bitter oppositon to Carnegie was one factor in the events leading to the 1901 purchase of the Carnegie Steel Company by J. P. Morgan and the formation of the Unites States Steel Corporation.Kenneth Warren is the first historian to be given unrestricted access to the extensive Frick archives in Pittsburgh. Drawing on Frick's personal and business papers, as well as the records of the H. C. Frick Coal & Coke Company, the Carnegie Steel Company, and the U.S. Steel Corporation, Warren provides a wealth of new insights into Frick's relationship with such contemporaries as Carnegie, J. P. Morgan, Charles Schwab, and Elbert Gary. He describes and analyzes the key decisions that formed labor and industrial policy in the iron and steel industry during a period of growth that remains unparalled in American business history.Not only an industrial biography of a driving force in American industry and the organization of American business, Triumphant Capitolism, now available in paperback, makes a major contribution to our understanding of the history of the basic industries, the shaping of society, locality, and region - and thereby of laying the foundations for the value systems and landscapes of present-day America.
Meet You in Hell
Author: Les Standiford
Publisher: Crown
ISBN: 1400047684
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 346
Book Description
Two founding fathers of American industry. One desire to dominate business at any price. “Masterful . . . Standiford has a way of making the 1890s resonate with a twenty-first-century audience.”—USA Today “The narrative is as absorbing as that of any good novel—and as difficult to put down.”—Miami Herald 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. 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 result is an extraordinary work of popular history. Praise for Meet You in Hell “To the list of the signal relationships of American history . . . we can add one more: Andrew Carnegie and Henry Clay Frick . . . The tale is deftly set out by Les Standiford.”—Wall Street Journal “Standiford tells the story with the skills of a novelist . . . a colloquial style that is mindful of William Manchester’s great The Glory and the Dream.”—Pittsburgh Tribune-Review “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 River
Publisher: Crown
ISBN: 1400047684
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 346
Book Description
Two founding fathers of American industry. One desire to dominate business at any price. “Masterful . . . Standiford has a way of making the 1890s resonate with a twenty-first-century audience.”—USA Today “The narrative is as absorbing as that of any good novel—and as difficult to put down.”—Miami Herald 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. 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 result is an extraordinary work of popular history. Praise for Meet You in Hell “To the list of the signal relationships of American history . . . we can add one more: Andrew Carnegie and Henry Clay Frick . . . The tale is deftly set out by Les Standiford.”—Wall Street Journal “Standiford tells the story with the skills of a novelist . . . a colloquial style that is mindful of William Manchester’s great The Glory and the Dream.”—Pittsburgh Tribune-Review “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 River
Henry Clay Frick
Author: George Harvey
Publisher: Beard Books
ISBN: 9781587981272
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 396
Book Description
Written by a close friend, this is the story of the industrialist, art collector, and benefactor.
Publisher: Beard Books
ISBN: 9781587981272
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 396
Book Description
Written by a close friend, this is the story of the industrialist, art collector, and benefactor.
Henry Clay Frick
Author: Samuel Agnew Schreiner
Publisher: St Martins Press
ISBN: 9780312118211
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
Traces the life of the brilliant and ruthless businessman who used leveraged buyouts, insider trading, stock manipulation, price fixing, and union busting to become one of the richest men in America
Publisher: St Martins Press
ISBN: 9780312118211
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
Traces the life of the brilliant and ruthless businessman who used leveraged buyouts, insider trading, stock manipulation, price fixing, and union busting to become one of the richest men in America
Henry Clay Frick
Author: Quentin R. Skrabec, Jr.
Publisher: McFarland
ISBN: 0786456086
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 271
Book Description
Henry Clay Frick, reviled in his own time, infamous in ours, was blamed for the Johnstown Flood (which killed 2,200 people) as well as the violent Homestead Strike of 1892, and survived an assassination attempt, yet at the same time was an ardent philanthropist, giving more than $100 million during his lifetime and in his will, while insisting on anonymity. This biography explores the contradictions in this great industrialist's nature and avoids the extremes of both hagiography and denunciation.
Publisher: McFarland
ISBN: 0786456086
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 271
Book Description
Henry Clay Frick, reviled in his own time, infamous in ours, was blamed for the Johnstown Flood (which killed 2,200 people) as well as the violent Homestead Strike of 1892, and survived an assassination attempt, yet at the same time was an ardent philanthropist, giving more than $100 million during his lifetime and in his will, while insisting on anonymity. This biography explores the contradictions in this great industrialist's nature and avoids the extremes of both hagiography and denunciation.
The Cyclopædia of American Biography
Author: James Grant Wilson
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 928
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 928
Book Description
My Father, Henry Clay Frick
Author: Helen Clay Frick
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781258633844
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 38
Book Description
This Work First Appeared As A Series Of Articles In The Pittsburgh Press In August, 1959.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781258633844
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 38
Book Description
This Work First Appeared As A Series Of Articles In The Pittsburgh Press In August, 1959.
Prison Blossoms
Author: Alexander Berkman
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674050568
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 321
Book Description
Published here for the first time is a crucial document in the history of American radicalism—the "Prison Blossoms," a series of essays, narratives, poems, and fables composed by three activist anarchists imprisoned for the 1892 assault on anti-union steel tycoon Henry Clay Frick.
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674050568
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 321
Book Description
Published here for the first time is a crucial document in the history of American radicalism—the "Prison Blossoms," a series of essays, narratives, poems, and fables composed by three activist anarchists imprisoned for the 1892 assault on anti-union steel tycoon Henry Clay Frick.
Holland's Golden Age in America
Author: Esmée Quodbach
Publisher: Penn State University Press
ISBN:
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
Essays by American and Dutch scholars and museum curators explore the collecting and reception of seventeenth-century Dutch painting in America, from the colonial era through the Gilded Age to today.
Publisher: Penn State University Press
ISBN:
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
Essays by American and Dutch scholars and museum curators explore the collecting and reception of seventeenth-century Dutch painting in America, from the colonial era through the Gilded Age to today.