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No woman in the Gilded Age made as much money as Hetty Green, America s first female tycoon. A strong woman who forged her own path, she was worth at least $100 million by the end of her life in 1916 equal to about $2.5 billion today.
Green was mocked for her simple Quaker ways and her unfashionable frugality in an era of opulence and excess; the press even nicknamed her The Witch of Wall Street. But those who knew her admired her wit and wisdom, and while financiers around her rose and fell as financial bubbles burst, she steadily amassed a fortune that supported businesses, churches,...

This "richly textured biography" (Chicago Tribune) inspired the mesmerizing documentary, Letters from Baghdad, now in theaters.

Here is the story of Gertrude Bell, who explored, mapped, and excavated the Arab world throughout the early twentieth century. Recruited by British intelligence during World War I, she played a crucial role in obtaining the loyalty of Arab leaders, and her connections and information provided the brains to match T. E. Lawrence's brawn. After the war, she played a major role in creating the modern Middle East and was, at the time,...