Book Beginnings: Meet You in Hell

Book Beginnings on Friday is a meme hosted by Gilion at Rose City Reader. Anyone can participate; just share the opening sentence of your current read, making sure that you include the title and author so others know what you're reading.

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

"On a promising New York day not long before the Treaty of Versailles put an end to a war that had threatened the very fabric of civilization, or so the story goes, one of America's wealthiest men--his holdings valued at more than $100 billion in today's dollars--sat up in his sickbed in his Manhattan home and called to one of his caregivers for a pen and paper."

WOW, that's a lot of money. Few people realize that the robber barons of the Gilded Age were much more rich than the Buffets, Gateses and the other wealthiest people today.