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Hetty Green The First Lady Of Wall Street
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Book Synopsis Hetty Green - The First Lady of Wall Street by : Wyn Derbyshire
Download or read book Hetty Green - The First Lady of Wall Street written by Wyn Derbyshire and published by Spiramus Press Ltd. This book was released on 2019-10-04 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Book Synopsis The Richest Woman in America by : Janet Wallach
Download or read book The Richest Woman in America written by Janet Wallach and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2013-06-04 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No woman in the Gilded Age made as much money as Hetty Green, America’s first female tycoon. 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.
Download or read book Hetty written by Charles Slack and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2011-04-05 with total page 315 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Book Synopsis The Witch of Wall Street by : Boyden Sparkes
Download or read book The Witch of Wall Street written by Boyden Sparkes and published by . This book was released on 2011-10-01 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Witch of Wall Street, Hetty Green by : Boyden Sparkes
Download or read book The Witch of Wall Street, Hetty Green written by Boyden Sparkes and published by . This book was released on 1935 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "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.
Book Synopsis Ladies of the Ticker by : George Robb
Download or read book Ladies of the Ticker written by George Robb and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2017-08-16 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 explores 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.
Book Synopsis Wall Street Women by : Melissa S. Fisher
Download or read book Wall Street Women written by Melissa S. Fisher and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2012-06-19 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Book Synopsis Forbes Greatest Investing Stories by : Richard Phalon
Download or read book Forbes Greatest Investing Stories written by Richard Phalon and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2004-04-27 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Forbes Greatest Investment Stories of All Time" - Dieses Buch ist ein weiteres Produkt der erfolgreichen Zusammenarbeit zwischen Wiley und dem renommierten Wirtschaftsmagazin Forbes. Es berichtet über die wirklich großen Helden in der Geschichte des Investmentgeschäftes und wie sie dazu beigetragen haben, die Investmentbranche so zu prägen, wie sie heute ist. Autor Richard Phalon ist ein absoluter Experte auf diesem Gebiet. Hier gibt er einen Einblick in die hohe Kunst der Geldanlage und die gewinnbringenden Strategien, mit denen die ganz Großen nicht nur ein Vermögen gemacht, sondern auch die Märkte revolutioniert haben. Seit fast einem halben Jahrhundert beobachtet er die Branche, und viele Katastrophen hat er aus erster Hand miterlebt. Deshalb ist er auch in der Lage, diese Geschichten mit Leben zu füllen. Wenn sich im Investmentgeschäft auch die Daten, Branchen und Namen der Hauptdarsteller ändern - so bleiben die Themen doch immer die gleichen.
Download or read book Hetty Green written by Boyden Sparkes and published by . This book was released on 1930 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Rich and how They Got that Way by : Cynthia Crossen
Download or read book The Rich and how They Got that Way written by Cynthia Crossen and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Profiles of the wealthiest people throughout history reveal a wide range of techniques for amassing a fortune.
Book Synopsis A Prologue To Love by : Taylor Caldwell
Download or read book A Prologue To Love written by Taylor Caldwell and published by eNet Press. This book was released on with total page 861 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Caroline was detested by the father she worshipped who instilled in her a horror of poverty and a faith in money, but not in love. Caroline amassed millions until life challenged her to overcome the oppressive hardship of her father's legacy.
Download or read book God and Mammon written by Lance Morrow and published by Encounter Books. This book was released on 2020-11-24 with total page 129 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book Pop Finance written by Brooke Harrington and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2010-02-22 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the 1990s, the United States underwent a dramatic transformation: investing in stocks, once the province of a privileged elite, became a mass activity involving more than half of Americans. Pop Finance follows the trajectory of this new market populism via the rise of investment clubs, through which millions of people across the socioeconomic spectrum became investors for the first time. As sociologist Brooke Harrington shows, these new investors pour billions of dollars annually into the U.S. stock market and hold significant positions in some of the nation's largest firms. Drawing upon Harrington's long-term observation of investment clubs, along with in-depth interviews and extensive survey data, Pop Finance is the first book to examine the origins and impact of this mass engagement in investing. One of Harrington's most intriguing findings is that gender-based differences in investing can create a "diversity premium"--groups of men and women together are more profitable than single-sex groups. In examining the sources of this effect, she delves into the interpersonal dynamics that distinguish effective decision-making groups from their dysfunctional counterparts. In addition, Harrington shows that most Americans approach investing not only to make a profit but also to make a statement. In effect, portfolios have become like consumer products, serving both utilitarian and social ends. This ties into the growth of socially responsible investing and shareholder activism--matters relevant not only to social scientists but also to corporate leaders, policymakers, and the millions of Americans planning for retirement.
Book Synopsis The Day They Shook the Plum Tree by : Arthur H. Lewis
Download or read book The Day They Shook the Plum Tree written by Arthur H. Lewis and published by Buccaneer Books. This book was released on 1997-04 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Desert Queen written by Janet Wallach and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2010-11-30 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The definitive biography, mesmerizing and “richly textured ” (Chicago Tribune), that inspired the acclaimed documentary, Letters from Baghdad. With a new Afterword "Desert Queen...plucks Gertrude Bell out of the shadow of Lawrence of Arabia." —The Boston Globe Here is the story of Gertrude Bell, who explored, mapped, and excavated the Arab world throughout the early twentieth century. Recruited by British intelligence during World War I, she played a crucial role in obtaining the loyalty of Arab leaders, and her connections and information provided the brains to match T. E. Lawrence's brawn. After the war, she played a major role in creating the modern Middle East and was, at the time, considered the most powerful woman in the British Empire. In this masterful biography, Janet Wallach shows us the woman behind these achievements—a woman whose passion and defiant independence were at odds with the confined and custom-bound England she left behind. Too long eclipsed by Lawrence, Gertrude Bell emerges at last in her own right as a vital player on the stage of modern history, and as a woman whose life was both a heartbreaking story and a grand adventure.
Download or read book Men of Wealth written by John T. Flynn and published by Ludwig von Mises Institute. This book was released on 1941 with total page 570 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Petticoats and Pinstripes: Portraits of Women in Wall Street's History by : Sheri J. Caplan
Download or read book Petticoats and Pinstripes: Portraits of Women in Wall Street's History written by Sheri J. Caplan and published by ABC-CLIO. This book was released on 2013-06-17 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Petticoats and Pinstripes: Portraits of Women in Wall Street's History provides a fascinating chronological account of the contributions of women on Wall Street through profiles of selected individuals that set their achievements in the context of the prevailing times. The book documents how women frequently assumed financial roles as a temporary palliative to the nation's ills, only to be cast aside once conditions improved, and how they were often restrained from financial endeavors by various factors, including American legal, political, economic, and cultural norms. Author Sheri J. Caplan describes the accomplishments of women in the financial world against the backdrop of the general advancement of women's rights and the evolution of gender-based roles in society, and identifies the primary factors in the development of a greater female role in finance: wartime urgency, personal necessity, technological change, and financial education.
