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Founders: #73 Andrew Carnegie and Henry Clay Frick: The Bitter Partnership That Changed America

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[00:00:00] One thing is clear. Carnegie and Frick represent the American ethos of limitless possibility. Both men were born to poverty and both became wealthy and powerful beyond imagining. The impact of their steelmaking enterprise on the economy at the end of the 19th century was as profound as the impact of the American Revolution had been on this country's politics and philosophy a century before. And the rupture of their once perfect partnership illuminates the contradictions embodied in those two hallowed pillars of our thinking, capitalism and the Protestant ethic. Carnegie and Frick…

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