ABSTRACT
Henry Clay Frick's contemporaries always felt there was something not quite human about him. “No man on earth could get close to him or fathom him” the extroverted steel magnate Charles M.Schwab told an interviewer in the 1930s, long after Frick died. “He seemed more like a machine, without emotion or impulses. Absolutely cold-blooded. He had good foresight and was an excellent bargainer…. His assets were that he was a thinking machine, methodical as a comptometer, accurate, cutting straight to the point…the most methodical thinking machine I have ever known.”
