Hetty The Genius and Madness of America's First Female Tycoon

Name: Hetty The Genius and Madness of America's First Female Tycoon
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ISBN: 9780060542573

ISBN-10: 0060542578

ISBN-13: 9780060542573

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Authors: Charles Slack

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When J. P. Morgan called a meeting of New York's financial leaders after the stock market crash of 1907, Hetty Green was the only woman in the room. The Guinness Book of World Records memorialized her as the World's Greatest Miser, and, indeed, this unlikely robber baron -- who parlayed a comfortable inheritance into a fortune that was worth about 1.6 billion in today's dollars -- was frugal to a fault. But in an age when women weren't even allowed to vote, never mind concern themselves with interest rates, she lived by her own rules. In Hetty, Charles Slack reexamines her life and legacy, giving us, at long last, a splendidly "nuanced portrait" (Newsweek) of one of the greatest -- and most…

Book details

List price: $19.99
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Publication date: 11/1/2005
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 288
Size: 8.11" wide x 6.89" long x 0.71" tall
Weight: 0.572
Language: English

Charles Slack is a former business reporter & feature writer for "The Richmond Times-Dispatch" & has contributed articles to many prominent national magazines. He lives in Richmond, Virginia.