{"product_id":"hetty-the-genius-and-madness-of-americas-first-female-tycoon","title":"Hetty: The Genius and Madness of America's First Female Tycoon","description":"\u003cdiv data-a-expander-name=\"book_description_expander\" data-a-expander-collapsed-height=\"280\" class=\"a-expander-collapsed-height a-row a-expander-container a-spacing-base a-expander-partial-collapse-container\" style=\"max-height: none; height: 280px;\"\u003e \u003cdiv data-expanded=\"false\" class=\"a-expander-content a-expander-partial-collapse-content\" style=\"padding-bottom: 20px;\"\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e‚ÄúWonderfully detailed....Today‚Äôs vilified moguls look like pussycats compared with Hetty.‚Äù \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003e‚ÄîForbes\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eA biography of the ‚ÄúWitch of Wall Street,‚Äù who amassed a fortune of $100 million before women had the right to vote\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eA full century before Oprah and Martha Stewart became icons of female entrepreneurship, there was Hetty Green, America‚Äôs richest woman, who stood alone among the roguish giants of the Gilded Age. The \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eGuinness Book of World Records\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e memorialized her as the World‚Äôs Greatest Miser, and, indeed, this unlikely robber baron‚Äîwho parlayed a comfortable inheritance into a fortune that was worth about 1.6 billion in today‚Äôs dollars‚Äîwas frugal to a fault. But she lived by her own rules, buying and selling real estate and railroads, fighting hard and sometimes dirty, and amassing cash reserves to rival the great banks. In \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eHetty\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, Charles Slack reexamines her life and legacy, giving us, at long last, a splendidly ‚Äúnuanced portrait‚Äù (\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eNewsweek\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e) of one of the greatest‚Äîand most eccentric‚Äîfinanciers in American history.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003c\/div\u003e \u003cdiv class=\"a-expander-header a-expander-partial-collapse-header\" style=\"opacity: 1; display: block;\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"a-expander-content-fade\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003ca href=\"javascript:void(0)\" role=\"button\" data-action=\"a-expander-toggle\" class=\"a-declarative\" data-a-expander-toggle='{\"allowLinkDefault\":true, \"expand_prompt\":\"Read more\", \"collapse_prompt\":\"Read less\"}'\u003e\u003ci class=\"a-icon a-icon-extender-expand\"\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-expander-prompt\"\u003eRead more\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e \u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Ecco Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50548258242845,"sku":"9780060542573","price":14.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0901\/5692\/5213\/files\/9780060542573.jpg?v=1761677003","url":"https:\/\/bookdelico.com\/products\/hetty-the-genius-and-madness-of-americas-first-female-tycoon","provider":"Book Delico ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}