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The Richest Woman in America: Hetty Green in the Gilded Age   Janet Wallach
“Feminist” history of a Trump-like woman, mean financially and emotionally. Nothing about her seems admirable, even her wealth was initially inherited. Wallach’s praise, written in young-adult-like prose, centers solely on the fact that she was a woman, and liked “nothing better than to best a man.” She valued “influence and position.” I found her to be an example of what was bad about the whole period. Didn’t like Green or this book.