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Hetty Green as a Psychological Miser Explored
Leonard Hirshberg argues Hetty Green’s vast wealth and actions reveal a warped mind driven by greed. The piece sketches her life as a study in miserliness, citing tax dodging, frugality, and limited charity while linking her behavior to psychoanalytic theory and notions of inherited or acquired mental disease.
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Leonard Keene Hirshberg
Johns Hopkins
Hetty Green
Green
Rockefeller
Carnegie
James J. Hill
Chicago
Sig
Mrs. Green
Dichaeus Dichaenus