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.