Hetty: The Genius and Madness of America's First Female Tycoon, Paperback - Charles Slack

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Reducere. Hetty Howland Green (1834-1916), born Hetty Howland Robinson, and known in her later years as "The Witch of Wall Street, " was born in the whaling ...

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