Charles Slack's 2004 biography of Hetty Green — the richest woman in America at her death in 1916 — documenting her value investing approach, her legendary frugality, and her battles to preserve and grow her inheritance against men who wanted to control it.
Recovers Hetty Green's story as an investing genius rather than merely an eccentric miser — the book shows that her frugality was inseparable from her investment discipline, that every dollar saved was a dollar available for the next distressed asset purchase.
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