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informative medium-paced

4.0

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4.0

I read this in advance of a visit to Pittsburgh, and I found it really informative, both of the industrial history of the area but also of the impact of two of its greatest benefactors, Henry Clay Frick and Andrew Carnegie.



Standiford brings a novelist's knack for telling the story of the descent into violence at Homestead and its effect on the laborers and the capitalists. I just couldn't put it down.
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