
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.
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Wow, a lot of money indeed! Interesting opening--and the book sounds very interesting :)
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Sounds like an interesting premise for a book. I read a biography about Rockefeller and would like to learn more about those robber barons.
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That is a lot of money. Now I wonder what he wanted to write.
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