Triumphant Capitalism: Henry Clay Frick and the Industrial Transformation of America

By Kenneth Warren

Book Overview

A detailed, carefully wrought business biography of Henry Clay Frick, one of the leading entrepreneurs in American heavy industry during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Kenneth Warren has provided not only insight into the life of Henry Clay Frick, but 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.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0822938898
• ISBN13: 9780822938897
• Release Date: January 1996
• Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
• Length: 426 Pages
• Weight: 1.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 6.5" x 9.6"

Customer Reviews

An insightful look at the career of a most complex man.

Kenneth Warren managed to succeed where Samuel Schreiner seemed to fall flat. Henry Clay Frick was a man of many contradictions. Very insightful and well-written.