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- ISBN
- 9780060542573
- Book Title
- Hetty : the Genius and Madness of America's First Female Tycoon
- Publisher
- HarperCollins
- Item Length
- 6.9 in
- Publication Year
- 2005
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 0.7 in
- Genre
- Social Science, Biography & Autobiography
- Topic
- Popular Culture, General
- Item Weight
- 9.1 Oz
- Item Width
- 8.1 in
- Number of Pages
- 288 Pages
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Publisher
HarperCollins
ISBN-10
0060542578
ISBN-13
9780060542573
eBay Product ID (ePID)
45593793
Product Key Features
Book Title
Hetty : the Genius and Madness of America's First Female Tycoon
Number of Pages
288 Pages
Language
English
Topic
Popular Culture, General
Publication Year
2005
Genre
Social Science, Biography & Autobiography
Format
Trade Paperback
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Item Height
0.7 in
Item Weight
9.1 Oz
Item Length
6.9 in
Item Width
8.1 in
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Reviews
"[An] instructive account.... Slack offers an exemplary retelling for a new generation." -- Kirkus Reviews "Slack concentrates on telling a good story and telling it well.... [An] entertaining biography." -- Publishers Weekly "A wonderfully detailed new biography." -- Forbes "[A] page-turning portrait of an important and complicated woman." -- Richmond Times-Dispatch "[A] nuanced portrait." -- Newsweek "A fascinating book." -- New York Post "Fascinating." -- Tucson Citizen
Dewey Edition
22
Dewey Decimal
332/.092 B
Synopsis
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 eccentric - financiers in American history. This P.S. edition features an extra 16 pages of insights into the book, including author interviews, recommended reading, and more., "This book is more than the story of an eccentric, driven woman; it is a window on the country between the Civil War and World War I when great fortunes were made--even by a woman."--USA Today A biography of Hetty Green, known as the "Witch of Wall Street," who dueled with the giants of the Gilded Age and amassed a fortune of $100 million before women had the right to vote A full century before Martha Stewart, Oprah, and Madonna became icons of female entrepreneurship, there was Hetty Green, America's richest woman, who stood alone among the roguish giants of the Gilded Age as the first lady of capitalism. While derided as "a witch of Wall Street" in her lifetime, today, Hetty ranks near the top of America's list of greatest financiers. She was a female Citizen Kane and America's richest woman. She bought and sold real estate and railroads, fought hard and sometimes dirty, cornered markets, and amassed cash reserves to rival the great banks. She was the lone woman among a gallery of Gilded Age rogue heroes-Andrew Carnegie, Jay Gould, J.P. Morgan, John D. Rockefeller, and the Vanderbilts. This new biography looks well beyond the lore and historical prejudices to present a brilliant, ruthless entrepreneur vastly ahead of her time, a financial empire ruler known simply as Hetty., 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 eccentric -- financiers in American history. This P.S. edition features an extra 16 pages of insights into the book, including author interviews, recommended reading, and more., 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 eccentric -- financiers in American history. This P.S. edition features an extra 16 pages of insights into the book, including author interviews, recommended reading, and more.
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