Charles Slack

Hetty: The Genius and Madness of America's First Female Tycoon (2004)

The 1996 book, The Wealthy 100, ranked the net work of 100 wealthy Americans by the percentage of the Gross National Product their personal fortunes represented. Hetty, the only woman on the list, came in 36th— five places behind Bill Gates and three places ahead of Warren Buffett.This is a fasci...