The Witch Of Wall Street Hetty Green
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The Witch Of Wall Street Hetty Green
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Author : Boyden Sparkes
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1935
The Witch Of Wall Street Hetty Green written by Boyden Sparkes and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1935 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
"Hetty Green (née Robinson), nicknamed "The Witch of Wall Street" (November 21, 1834 ? July 3, 1916), was an American businesswoman, remarkable for her frugality during the Gilded Age, as well as for being the first American woman to make a substantial impact on Wall Street."--Wikipedia.
The Witch Of Wall Street Hetty Green
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Author : Sparkes
language : en
Publisher: Buccaneer Books
Release Date : 1992-01-01
The Witch Of Wall Street Hetty Green written by Sparkes and has been published by Buccaneer Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1992-01-01 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Hetty Green The First Lady Of Wall Street
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Author : Wyn Derbyshire
language : en
Publisher: Spiramus Press Ltd
Release Date : 2019-10-04
Hetty Green The First Lady Of Wall Street written by Wyn Derbyshire and has been published by Spiramus Press Ltd this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-10-04 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
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.
The Richest Woman In America
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Author : Janet Wallach
language : en
Publisher: Anchor
Release Date : 2012-09-25
The Richest Woman In America written by Janet Wallach and has been published by Anchor this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-09-25 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
No woman in the Gilded Age made as much money as Hetty Green. Now the acclaimed author of Desert Queen delivers the definitive biography of America’s first female tycoon, “an investment pioneer who matched her male counterparts in ambition and guile, and never backed down from a fight…. Filled with colorful historical details of an economic time that eerily parallels our own.” —San Francisco Chronicle Hetty Green was a strong woman who forged her own path, she was worth at least $100 million by the end of her life in 1916—equal to about $2.5 billion today. Green was mocked for her simple Quaker ways and her unfashionable frugality in an era of opulence and excess; the press even nicknamed her “The Witch of Wall Street.” But those who knew her admired her wit and wisdom, and while financiers around her rose and fell as financial bubbles burst, she steadily amassed a fortune that supported businesses, churches, municipalities, and even the city of New York. Janet Wallach’s engrossing biography reveals striking parallels between past financial crises and current recession woes, and speaks not only to history buffs but to today’s investors, who just might learn a thing or two from Hetty Green.
Hetty
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Author : Charles Slack
language : en
Publisher: Harper Collins
Release Date : 2011-04-05
Hetty written by Charles Slack and has been published by Harper Collins this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-04-05 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
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.
Math On Trial
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Author : Leila Schneps
language : en
Publisher: Basic Books
Release Date : 2013-03-12
Math On Trial written by Leila Schneps and has been published by Basic Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-03-12 with Mathematics categories.
In the wrong hands, math can be deadly. Even the simplest numbers can become powerful forces when manipulated by politicians or the media, but in the case of the law, your liberty -- and your life -- can depend on the right calculation. In Math on Trial, mathematicians Leila Schneps and Coralie Colmez describe ten trials spanning from the nineteenth century to today, in which mathematical arguments were used -- and disastrously misused -- as evidence. They tell the stories of Sally Clark, who was accused of murdering her children by a doctor with a faulty sense of calculation; of nineteenth-century tycoon Hetty Green, whose dispute over her aunt's will became a signal case in the forensic use of mathematics; and of the case of Amanda Knox, in which a judge's misunderstanding of probability led him to discount critical evidence -- which might have kept her in jail. Offering a fresh angle on cases from the nineteenth-century Dreyfus affair to the murder trial of Dutch nurse Lucia de Berk, Schneps and Colmez show how the improper application of mathematical concepts can mean the difference between walking free and life in prison. A colorful narrative of mathematical abuse, Math on Trial blends courtroom drama, history, and math to show that legal expertise isn't't always enough to prove a person innocent.
Wall Street Women
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Author : Melissa S. Fisher
language : en
Publisher: Duke University Press
Release Date : 2012-06-19
Wall Street Women written by Melissa S. Fisher and has been published by Duke University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-06-19 with Business & Economics categories.
Wall Street Women tells the story of the first generation of women to establish themselves as professionals on Wall Street. Since these women, who began their careers in the 1960s, faced blatant discrimination and barriers to advancement, they created formal and informal associations to bolster one another's careers. In this important historical ethnography, Melissa S. Fisher draws on fieldwork, archival research, and extensive interviews with a very successful cohort of first-generation Wall Street women. She describes their professional and political associations, most notably the Financial Women's Association of New York City and the Women's Campaign Fund, a bipartisan group formed to promote the election of pro-choice women. Fisher charts the evolution of the women's careers, the growth of their political and economic clout, changes in their perspectives and the cultural climate on Wall Street, and their experiences of the 2008 financial collapse. While most of the pioneering subjects of Wall Street Women did not participate in the women's movement as it was happening in the 1960s and 1970s, Fisher argues that they did produce a "market feminism" which aligned liberal feminist ideals about meritocracy and gender equity with the logic of the market.
The Rich And How They Got That Way
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Author : Cynthia Crossen
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2000
The Rich And How They Got That Way written by Cynthia Crossen and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Profiles of the wealthiest people throughout history reveal a wide range of techniques for amassing a fortune.
God And Mammon
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Author : Lance Morrow
language : en
Publisher: Encounter Books
Release Date : 2020-11-24
God And Mammon written by Lance Morrow and has been published by Encounter Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-11-24 with History categories.
Award-winning essayist Lance Morrow writes about the partnership of God and Mammon in the New World—about the ways in which Americans have made money and lost money, and about how they have thought and obsessed about this peculiarly American subject. Fascinated by the tracings of theology in the ways of American money Morrow sees a reconciliation of God and Mammon in the working out of the American Dream. This sharp-eyed essay reflects upon American money in a series of individual life stories, including his own. Morrow writes about what he calls “the emotions of money,” which he follows from the catastrophe of the Great Depression to the era of Bill Gates, Oprah Winfrey, and Donald Trump. He considers money’s dual character—functioning both as a hard, substantial reality and as a highly subjective force and shape-shifter, a sort of dream. Is money the root of all evil? Or is it the source of much good? Americans have struggled with the problem of how to square the country’s money and power with its aspiration to virtue. Morrow pursues these themes as they unfold in the lives of Americans both famous and obscure: Here is Thomas Jefferson, the luminous Founder who died broke, his fortune in ruin, his estate and slaves at Monticello to be sold to pay his debts. Here are the Brown brothers of Providence, Rhode Island, members of the family that founded Brown University. John Brown was in the slave trade, while his brother Moses was an ardent abolitionist. With race in America a powerful subtheme throughout the book, Morrow considers Booker T. Washington, who, with a cunning that sometimes went unappreciated among his own people, recognized money as the key to full American citizenship. God and Mammon is a masterly weaving of America’s money myths, from the nation’s beginnings to the present.
Ladies Of The Ticker
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Author : George Robb
language : en
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Release Date : 2017-08-16
Ladies Of The Ticker written by George Robb and has been published by University of Illinois Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-08-16 with Social Science categories.
Long overlooked in histories of finance, women played an essential role in areas such as banking and the stock market during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Yet their presence sparked ongoing controversy. Hetty Green's golden touch brought her millions, but she outraged critics with her rejection of domesticity. Progressives like Victoria Woodhull, meanwhile, saw financial acumen as more important for women than the vote. George Robb's pioneering study sheds a light on the financial methods, accomplishments, and careers of three generations of women. Plumbing sources from stock brokers' ledgers to media coverage, Robb reveals the many ways women invested their capital while exploring their differing sources of information, approaches to finance, interactions with markets, and levels of expertise. He also rediscovers the forgotten women bankers, brokers, and speculators who blazed new trails--and sparked public outcries over women's unsuitability for the predatory rough-and-tumble of market capitalism. Entertaining and vivid with details, Ladies of the Ticker sheds light on the trailblazers who transformed Wall Street into a place for women's work.