CSPAN2 Book TV October 21, 2012
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...