Hetty Green: Witch of Wall Street

Biographical profile of Hetty Green, considered by most historians to have been the richest American woman of all time. Dubbed "America's First Female Tycoon," or the "Witch of Wall Street," Green deservedly earned a place in the pantheon of American titans. Unfortunately, she is better known for her eccentricities and miserly ways-and she was as tightfisted as a bare-knuckled boxer-than for her unprecedented accomplishments in what was an exclusively male domain: finance. Where William Van...