Author : Wyn Derbyshire
Publisher : Spiramus Press Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1910151750
Total Pages : 130 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)
Book Synopsis Hetty Green - The First Lady of Wall Street by : Wyn Derbyshire
Download or read book Hetty Green - The First Lady of Wall Street written by Wyn Derbyshire and published by Spiramus Press Ltd. This book was released on 2019-10-04 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hetty Howland Green (1834-1916), born Hetty Howland Robinson, and known in her later years as “The Witch of Wall Street”, was born in the whaling town of New Bedford, Massachusetts to Quaker parents. This biography charts Hetty Green’s extraordinary ascent up the pyramid of wealth to a point where, in the earliest years of the twentieth century, she was being identified as the richest woman in America. The first in a series of brief biographies of significant tycoons, this is an insight into the life and methods of one of the earliest and most influential business women in the US. It examines the source of her wealth, and her method of building upon that. It also profiles those who helped or thwarted her along the way.