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 <i>Guinness Book of World Records</i> 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 <i>Hetty</i>, Charles Slack reexamines her life and legacy, giving us, at long last, a splendidly "nuanced portrait" <i>(Newsweek)</i> of one of the greatest -- and most eccentric -- financiers in American history.<p>This P.S. edition features an extra 16 pages of insights into the book, including author interviews, recommended reading, and more. </p>