Caroline Bookbinder: Book Beginnings: Meet You in Hell

Friday, October 4, 2013

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.

4 comments:

Lianne @ caffeinatedlife.net said...: Wow, a lot of money indeed! Interesting opening--and the book sounds very interesting :)

Happy reading! My Friday Book Memes; October 4, 2013 at 6:46 AM
Elizabeth said...: I read this book...wasn't too excited about it.

I hope you enjoy it. It is a great beginning.

THANKS.

Elizabeth
Silver's Reviews
My Book Beginnings; October 4, 2013 at 1:49 PM
Gilion at Rose City Reader said...: Sounds like an interesting premise for a book. I read a biography about Rockefeller and would like to learn more about those robber barons.

This is the first week in a while I’ve had time to leave comments and not just fly by. Thanks for participating in Book Beginnings on Friday!; October 4, 2013 at 5:36 PM
JC Jones said...: That is a lot of money. Now I wonder what he wanted to write.

Here is my post: Book Beginning at Mixed Book Bag; October 4, 2013 at 6:15 PM