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Slack, Charles

 
9780060542573: Hetty: The Genius and Madness of America's First Female Tycoon
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 0060542578 ISBN 13 : 9780060542573
Editeur : Harper Perennial, 2005

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.

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À propos de l'auteur

Charles Slack is the author of Liberty’s First Crisis: Adams, Jefferson, and the Misfits Who Saved Free Speech and Noble Obsession: Charles Goodyear, Thomas Hancock, and the Race to Unlock the Greatest Industrial Secret of the Nineteenth Century. He lives in Connecticut.

À propos de la quatrième de couverture

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.

Les informations fournies dans la section « A propos du livre » peuvent faire référence à une autre édition de ce titre.

Éditeur
Harper Perennial
Date d'édition
2005
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0060542578
ISBN 13 
9780060542573
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
282
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