Not willing to spend the money. They knew they could be skipped if they did not. We will continue questions downstairs. Also signings of the book. Lets continue downstairs. For our panelists. Robert, a tired, and john todd andrlik is a publisher of raglan did, it is always a treat to be in this store it is a wonderland. About five years ago a friend suggested that i share rightabout ms. Green. [laughter] i said to . She was called the which up on wall street. She was interesting but finance and wall street . Then it was 2008. And everything changed the stock market collapsed collapsed, realestate prices plunged and we were in a financial panic i started to think more about ms. Green and how shes survived ms. Green and how shes survived many financial crisis. There were no diaries then i remember something that was said that nice girls keep diaries. Bad girls do not have time last laugh and hetty green was bad. Now with men but many. She was consumed with money. Born in massachusetts 18
Dont have time. [laughter] and, hetty was bad. She wasnt bad about men. She was bad about money. She was consumed by money. Which was not sew dissimilar from the rest of her family. She was born in new bedford, massachusetts, in 1834 to a prosperous family of whaling merchants and in those days whale oil fueled the houses and factories not only here but around the world and whale parts were used for perfume, for paint, for corsets, for buggy whips and just about everything in between. So her family was extremely prosperous and they lived in what new bedford then was the most prosperous town in america. And they seemed like they embod i did her family embodied american values. They were rich. They were up standing citizens. Her father supported Abraham Lincoln later on and they were spiritual. They were quakers. And they had the new england values, the quaker values of thrift to the point of stinginess, particularly her father, and they believed in some policety and plain living. And to