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"Wonderfully detailed....Today's vilified moguls look like pussycats compared with Hetty." --Forbes

A biography of the "Witch of Wall Street," who amassed a fortune of $100 million before women had the right to vote

A full century before Oprah and Martha Stewart became icons of female entrepreneurship, there was Hetty Green, America's richest woman, who stood alone among the roguish giants of the Gilded Age. 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 she lived by her own rules, buying and selling real estate and railroads, fighting hard and sometimes dirty, and amassing cash reserves to rival the great banks. 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 eccentric--financiers in American history.

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A sleigh cut through the snowy streets of New Bedford, Massachusetts, during the early 1840s.

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  • Title Hetty: The Genius and Madness of America's First Female Tycoon
  • Author Charles Slack
  • Binding Hardback
  • Edition First Edition
  • Pages 272
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Ecco Press, New York, New York, U.S.A.
  • Publication date November 2, 2004
  • Illustrated Yes
  • ISBN 9780060542566 / 006054256X
  • Weight 0.93 lbs (0.42 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.25 x 5.5 x 0.93 in (20.96 x 13.97 x 2.36 cm)
  • Category Biography / Autobiography
  • Library of Congress subjects Millionaires - United States, Green, Hetty Howland Robinson
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 2004042055
  • Dewey Decimal Code B
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