Hetty: The Genius and Madness of America's First Female Tycoon - Hardcover

Slack, Charles

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 006054256X ISBN 13: 9780060542566

Publisher: Ecco Pr, 2004

Synopsis

Challenges popular misconceptions about the nineteenth century female tycoon's character to explore her considerable accomplishments in the world of finance at a time before women were legally able to vote, discussing Green's clashes with such Gilded Age figures as Andrew Carnegie, J. P. Morgan, and John D. Rockefeller. 25,000 first printing.

About this title

Review:

"Slack concentrates on telling a good story and telling it well.... [An] entertaining biography."--Publishers Weekly

"A wonderfully detailed new biography."--Forbes

"Fascinating."--Tucson Citizen

"A fascinating book."--New York Post

"[An] instructive account.... Slack offers an exemplary retelling for a new generation."--Kirkus Reviews

"[A] nuanced portrait."--Newsweek

"[A] page-turning portrait of an important and complicated woman."--Richmond Times-Dispatch

About the Author:

Charles Slack is the author of Noble Obsession: Charles Goodyear, Thomas Hancock, and the Race to Unlock the Greatest Industrial Secret of the Nineteenth Century, named one of the New York Public Library's twenty-five "Books to Remember" for 2002, and Blue Fairways: Three Months, Sixty Courses, No Mulligans. His writing has appeared in many national magazines. He lives in Connecticut with his wife, Barbara, and their daughters, Natalie and Caroline.

About this edition

• Publisher: Ecco Pr
• Publication date: 2004
• ISBN 10: 006054256X
• ISBN 13: 9780060542566
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 258