Publisher's websiteĪccess-restricted-item true Addeddate 02:45:50 Boxid IA150401 Camera Canon EOS 5D Mark II City New York Donorįriendsofthesanfranciscopubliclibrary Edition 1. 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. 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. 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. 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. New Bedford - Aunt Sylvia - A test of wills - Alone in a crowd - Self-imposed exile - Pride and pain - Hetty storms Wall Street - The view from Brooklyn - Grooming a protégé - Thou shalt not pass - A lady of your age - Across the river - If my daughter is happy - The hat was "Hetty" Green - I'll outlive all of them! - High times at Round Hill - Scattered to the wind Includes bibliographical references (pages 241-247) and index
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