The Richest Woman in America: Hetty Green in the Gilded Age

by Janet Wallach

Book Overview

No woman in the Gilded Age made as much money as Hetty Green. Now the acclaimed author of Desert Queen delivers the definitive biography of America's first female tycoon, "an investment pioneer who matched her male counterparts in ambition and guile, and never backed down from a fight.... Filled with colorful historical details of an economic time that eerily parallels our own." --San Francisco Chronicle

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0307474577
• ISBN13: 9780307474575
• Release Date: June 2013
• Publisher: Anchor Books
• Length: 384 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.4" x 7.7"

Customer Reviews

Read this for book club!

DIDNT expect to love it but I do! Well researched. Loved all the descriptions of life during the gilded age. She was an interesting subject. Sound advice.