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| Category: Biography:Women |
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| About the Book | |
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Harriet White Fisher broke the glass ceiling into a thousand pieces in 1900. With a determination as gritty as the floor in her iron and steel factory, she managed her employees with dignity and style for four decades while never letting anyone forget she was a woman doing what most people believed only a man could do. From a disadvantaged childhood to one of the wealthiest American women in the early 20th century – Harriet White Fisher became the leading woman industrialist of her time. Melting the components for making cast iron, pouring 2,000-plus degree molten metal into molds, finishing the anvils, vises, and rail joints – Harriet learned every function in her factory and would never ask a man to do anything unless she could also do the job herself. Traveling the world and crossing oceans 29 times, Harriet led a grand tour with her chauffeur, her chef, and her maid as they drove around the world in 1909 and 1910, often going where roads did not exist.
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| About the Author | |
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Frank Comstock has written for newspapers, magazines and historical societies. His fiction work includes novels and short stories with an emphasis on small town life. With a compassionate approach to real life, Frank has now turned to biography to bring the untold stories of important people to light. |