The research findings are slim, the author notes. Talese/Doubleday, is one of a handful of biographies written on this subject. Wallach’s “The Richest Woman in America: Hetty Green in the Gilded Age,” published by Nan A. What a delight it is to find Hetty Green! Ms. “I keep them until they go up and people are crazy to get them.” Brokers scrambled over one another to watch Hetty’s every move her utterances were of as much interest to the press as those of Warren Buffett today. “I buy when things are low and nobody wants them,” was Hetty’s frequently iterated ideology. In her time, as the biographer Janet Wallach notes, Hetty was acknowledged as “Queen of Wall Street,” New York City’s leading lender, a woman who would have ranked on the current Forbes 400 list with holdings that would be valued at an equivalent of $2 billion. nobody would have seen him as very peculiar - as notably out of the common.” Had Hetty Green been a man, even today her name might be more often mentioned among the great financiers of the Gilded Age. Hetty Green, devoting the greater part of his time and mind to the increasing of an inherited fortune,” reported a New York Times obituary in 1916, “.
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