hetty the genius and madness of america's first female tycoon

Morgan and the many others who built their palaces in New York and their castle-like summer cottages in Newport, R.I. All Editions of Hetty: The Genius and Madness of Americas First Female Tycoon 2005, Trade paperback ISBN-13: 9780060542573 2004, Hardcover ISBN-13: 9780060542566 Books by Charles Slack Starting at 1. But Hetty is never mentioned alongside the Vanderbilts, the Rockefellers, the Goulds, Andrew Carnegie or J.P. See search resultsfor this author Charles Slack(Author) 4. Charles Slack is the author of several books, including Liberty’s First Crisis on the early architects of American free speech, Noble Obsession on Charles Goodyear, and Hetty Green: The Genius and Madness of the America’s First Female Tycoon. Taubman as the owner of Sotheby's and as 'the big American property tycoon.'I thought of that anecdote as I read Charles Slack's book, 'Hetty: The Genius and Madness of America's First Female Tycoon.' I had known little of tycoon Hetty Green other than she was known as 'the witch of Wall Street' in her time and that she was a contemporary of the great tycoons of real estate, railroads, steel, coal and oil where the first large American fortunes were made. Hetty: The Genius and Madness of Americas First Female Tycoon Hardcover Bargain Price, Novemby Charles Slack (Author) Visit Amazons Charles Slack Page Find all the books, read about the author, and more. I served on one of his boards and knew him as a developer of shopping malls.

Yet several years ago in London I had a conversation with Sotheby's head of the silver department and mentioned Alfred Taubman of Detroit. A century ago a dowdy woman named Hetty Green held her own against the robber barons of the day Rich, pathologically frugal and shrewd, Hetty Green transformed a handsome inheritance into a.

In today's parlance, we seldom call a powerful businessperson a tycoon.

Hetty the genius and madness of america's first female tycoon