01371cam a2200313 i 4500 296036334 TxAuBib 20121017120000.0 120210s2012||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2012005657 9780385531979 0385531974 eng rda TxAuBib rda Wallach, Janet, 1942- The richest woman in America [BOOK] : the life and times of Hetty Green in the Gilded Age / Janet Wallach. First edition. New York : Nan A. Talese/Doubleday, 2012. xvi, 281 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier Includes bibliographical references (pages [235]-261) and index. Traces the story of the turn-of-the-twentieth-century tycoon, offering insight into her abandonment by her mother, the Quaker values that marked her life, and the brash investment practices that caused her to be heralded and denounced by those who knew her. 20121017. Green, Hetty Howland Robinson 1835-1916. Millionaires United States Biography. Women capitalists and financiers United States Biography. Biographies.