At the turn of the twentieth century, women were thought to be lacking the temperament to be successful investors. But there was one exception: Hetty Green, who left a personal fortune of $100 million at her death in 1916 ($1.6 billion today). Even more exceptional for a woman of her time, she made most of that money herself. Green died before women even had the right to vote, but to this day is considered one of America's greatest financiers.
Green is as well known for her eccentricities as her money. She is listed in Guinness World Records as the world's greatest miser, and is said to have allowed her son to lose a leg rather than pay money for a doctor. But as always, the truth is much more complex. In Hetty, Charles Slack reveals the real Hetty Green to be a brilliant investor and strong-willed individual who was not afraid to defy social mores and live life by her own terms. Charles Slack is the author of Noble Obsession: Charles Goodyear, Thomas Hancock, and the Race to Unlock the Greatest Industrial Secret of the Nineteenth Century, named one of the New York Public Library's twenty-five "Books to Remember" for 2002, and Blue Fairways: Three Months, Sixty Courses, No Mulligans. His writing has appeared in many national magazines. He lives in Connecticut with his wife, Barbara, and their daughters, Natalie and Caroline. "A wonderfully detailed new biography ... Today's vilified moguls look like pussycats compared with Hetty." -- Forbes--Richmond Times-Dispatch
- ISBN10 006054256X
- ISBN13 9780060542566
- Publish Date 2 November 2004
- Publish Status Out of Stock
- Publish Country US
- Publisher HarperCollins Publishers Inc
- Imprint HarperCollins
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 272
- Language English