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Hetty: The Genius and Madness of America's First Female Tycoon
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- Release Year
- 2004
- ISBN
- 9780060542566
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
HarperCollins
ISBN-10
006054256X
ISBN-13
9780060542566
eBay Product ID (ePID)
4038200384
Product Key Features
Book Title
Hetty : the Genius and Madness of America's First Female Tycoon
Number of Pages
272 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2004
Topic
Women, Popular Culture, Business
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Social Science, Biography & Autobiography
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
0.9 in
Item Weight
14.9 Oz
Item Length
8.2 in
Item Width
5.5 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2004-042055
Dewey Edition
22
Dewey Decimal
332/.092 B
Synopsis
A full century before Martha Stewart, Oprah, and Madonna became icons, generations before women swept through Wall Street, and decades before they even had the right to vote, 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 and is remembered as the Witch of Wall Street. At the time of her death in 1916, Hetty Green's personal fortune was estimated at $100 million ($1.6 billion today), and the financial empire she built on real estate and railroads rivaled that of Andrew Carnegie, Jay Gould, J. P. Morgan, John D. Rockefeller, and some of the nation's biggest banks. Today, Hetty Green ranks near the top of America's list of greatest financiers, in company with Microsoft founder Bill Gates and billionaire-investor Warren Buffett. But in history books she has remained merely a footnote, a miser and an eccentric, whose character flaws and personal choices unjustly overshadowed her remarkable accomplishments on the fierce battlefield of American industry and commerce. In Hetty, Charles Slack reexamines the life, work, and conflicted legacy of the exceptionally resourceful, ruthless, and inimitable woman who turned a comfortable inheritance into a fortune through instinct, courage, cunning, greed, and determination to succeed at a man's game on her own terms: from her childhood in the Quaker community of New Bedford, Massachusetts, where she learned about business by reading financial papers to her father, to the battle over her inheritance that was one of the most controversial legal cases of her time; from her collisions with railroad magnate Collis Huntington to her rescue of New York City from financial ruin. Looking well beyond the lore and historical prejudices, Charles Slack presents a full portrait of a true American original, a female Citizen Kane who, having turned away from the conventions of her time, as a woman, a wife, a mother, and a mogul, led a life of a different sort, with occasionally tragic results, becoming both a hero and a victim of her era. Above all, it is a story of an uncompromising, larger-than-life, flawed woman who ruled a vast financial empire but was known, simply, as Hetty., "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., "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.
LC Classification Number
HG2463.G74S57 2004
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