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hjmo 's review for:
The Richest Woman in America: Hetty Green in the Gilded Age
by Janet Wallach
Well written in narrative style. Great at giving context to the times and providing hilarious vignettes into Hetty's life. I am starting to be fascinated by the Gilded Age and it's interesting to me how some names ie Vanderbilt, Morgan, Astor, have stuck with us and others like Green have been lost. By all accounts, she was famous in her day but I imagine she wasn't sensational enough for dramatisations to be made about her. I enjoyed the end with the "wisdom of Hetty Green" too.