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The Inside History of the Carnegie Steel Company
A Romance of Millions
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"For years I have been convinced that there is not an honest bone in your body. Now I know that you are a god-damned thief," Henry Clay Frick reportedly told Andrew Carnegie at their last meeting in 1900, just before J. P. Morgan bought the Carnegie Steel Company and founded United States Steel. Three years later, James Bridge, who had served as Carnegie's personal secretary, published this book. In it he recounted the events that led up to the final confrontation between two of America's most powerful capitalists. The book created a sensation when it appeared in 1903. Not only did it describe the raw emotions of Carnegie and Frick, those most brilliant and uneasy of business partners, it also told of the history and inner workings of the industrial giant, Carnegie Steel. Bridge was an open partisan of Frick, and the portrait of Carnegie that emerges from this book is not flattering. But he was an experienced journalist, and he uses sources carefully. His book remains a striking insider's narrative of the American steel industry in the last decades of the nineteenth century-as well as the most revealing account of the emotions of some of its major owners. The introduction by John Ingram places the book in perspective for both the historian and general reader.
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Table of contents
- CONTENTS
- INTRODUCTION
- PREFACE
- AUTHOR'S NOTE TO THE THIRD EDITION
- CHAPTER I THE HUMBLE BEGINNING: 1853-1863
- CHAPTER II "A MOST HAZARDOUS ENTERPRISE": 1863-1865
- CHAPTER III EARLY STRUGGLES AND SUCCESSES: 1865
- CHAPTER IV IRON RAILWAY BRIDGES: 1865
- CHAPTER V A RIVALRY OF GREAT FURNACES: 1872
- CHAPTER VI BEGINNINGS AND GROWTH OF THE STEEL BUSINESS: 1875
- CHAPTER VII SOME INSIDE FINANCIAL HISTORY: 1875-1888
- CHAPTER VIII QUARRELS AND "EJECTURES"
- CHAPTER IX A GLANCE AT PROCESSES
- CHAPTER X THE RISE AND GROWTH OF HOMESTEAD: 1879
- CHAPTER XI THE INCOMING OF HENRY CLAY FRICK: 1882
- CHAPTER XII THE CAPTURE OF THE DUQUESNE STEEL WORKS: 1889
- CHAPTER XIII LABOR CONTESTS IN THEORY AND PRACTICE
- CHAPTER XIV THE HOMESTEAD BATTLE: 1892
- CHAPTER XV ATTEMPTED ASSASSINATION OF MR. FRICK
- CHAPTER XVI THE AFTERMATH OF WAR
- CHAPTER XVII A RELUCTANT SUPREMACY: 1892-1899
- CHAPTER XVIII THE WORKINGS OF THE CORPORATE MIND: 1899
- CHAPTER XIX THE ZENITH OF PROSPERITY
- CHAPTER XX CARNEGIE'S ATTEMPT TO DEPOSE FRICK
- CHAPTER XXI THE FAILURE OF THE IRON-CLAD
- CHAPTER XXII THE ATLANTIC CITY COMPROMISE
- CHAPTER XXIII THE BILLION-DoLLAR FINALE
- APPENDIX
- INDEX