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 with a personal fortune estimated at $100 million ($1.6 billion today). In Hetty, Charles Slack reexamines the life, work, and conflicted legacy of this true American original. While derided as “a witch of Wall Street” in her lifetime, today, Hetty ranks near the top of America’s list of greatest financiers: a brilliant, ruthless entrepreneur, vastly ahead of her time, know simply as Hetty.
- ISBN10 0060542578
- ISBN13 9780060542573
- Publish Date 26 October 2005 (first published 2 November 2004)
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country AU
- Imprint Harper Perennial
- Format Paperback (B-Format (198x129 mm))
- Pages 288
- Language English
- URL http://harpercollins.com.au/9780060542573