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. Reprint. 20,000 first printing. When J. P. Morgan called a meeting of New York's financial leaders after the stock market crash of 1907, Hetty Green was the only woman in the room. The Guinness Book of World Records memorialized her as the World's Greatest Miser, and, indeed, this unlikely robber baron -- who parlayed a comfortable inheritance into a fortune that was worth about 1.6 billion in today's dollars -- was frugal to a fault. But in an age when women weren't even allowed to vote, never mind concern themselves with interest rates, she lived by her own rules. In Hetty, Charles Slack reexamines her life and legacy, giving us, at long last, a splendidly "nuanced portrait" (Newsweek) of one of the greatest -- and most eccentric -- financiers in American history. This P.S. edition features an extra 16 pages of insights into the book, including author interviews, recommended reading, and more. Preface ix ONE New Bedford 1(17) TWO Aunt Sylvia 18(12) THREE A Test of Wills 30(16) FOUR Alone in a Crowd 46(18) FIVE Self-Imposed Exile 64(11) SIX Pride and Pain 75(12) SEVEN Hetty Storms Wall Street 87(14) EIGHT The View from Brooklyn 101(10) NINE Grooming a Protégé 111(13) TEN Thou Shalt Not Pass 124(14) ELEVEN A Lady of Your Age 138(11) TWELVE Across the River 149(16) THIRTEEN If My Daughter IS Happy 165(16) FOURTEEN The Hat Was "Hetty" Green 181(13) FIFTEEN Outlive All of Them! 194(10) SIXTEEN High Times at Round Hill 204(18) SEVENTEEN Scattered to the Wind 222(5) Acknowledgments 227(4) Source Notes 231(10) Bibliography 241(8) Index 249