| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 94.3

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Book Review

Industrial Genius: The Working Life of Charles Michael Schwab. By Kenneth Warren. (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2007. xvi, 285 pp. $35.00, ISBN 0-8229-4326-3.)
Kenneth Warren is revolutionizing scholarship on the American steel industry. He has already written a much-needed biography of Henry Clay Frick (Triumphant Capitalism, 1995), a history of the United States Steel Corporation (Big Steel, 2001), and is working on a history of the Bethlehem Steel Corporation. The latest release in this sequence is a biography of Charles M. Schwab, the man who not only had the idea to form U.S. Steel but turned Bethlehem Steel into the second biggest company in the industry.	1
Unlike the situation with Frick, there is already a good scholarly biography of Schwab, Robert Hessen's Steel Titan (1975). Industrial Genius exists in the shadow of that previous work. For example, Warren does not discuss Schwab's childhood and personal life because Hessen covered them in detail. What is left is a study of Schwab's life in business. What separates it most from Hessen's work in that respect is Warren's access to sources Hessen could not use, most notably the Henry Clay Frick Papers, newly available at the Archives of Industrial Society of the University of Pittsburgh.	. . .

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