The rags to riches story of Silicon Valley's original disruptor.
American Disruptor is the untold story of Leland Stanford – from his birth in a backwoods bar to the founding of the world-class university that became and remains the nucleus of Silicon Valley. The life of this robber baron, politician, and historic influencer is the astonishing tale of how one supremely ambitious man became this country's original "disruptor" – reshaping industry and engineering one of the greatest raids on the public treasury for America’s transcontinental railroad, all while living more opulently than maharajas, kings, and emperors.
It is also the saga of how Stanford, once a serial failure, overcame all obstacles to become one of America’s most powerful and wealthiest men, using his high elective office to enrich himself before losing the one thing that mattered most to him – his only child and son. Scandal and intrigue would follow Stanford through his life, and even after his death, when his widow was murdered in a Honolulu hotel – a crime quickly covered up by the almost stillborn university she had saved. Richly detailed and deeply researched, American Disruptor restores Leland Stanford’s rightful place as a revolutionary force and architect of modern America.
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Publisher
University of California PressYear
2019Print ISBN
9780520383234
Edition
1eBook ISBN
9780520973565
Table of contents
- Cover
- AMERICAN DISRUPTOR
- Title
- Copyright
- Dedication
- CONTENTS
- Acknowledgments
- Prologue: Fell Redemption
- 1. Start-Up
- 2. Everything Ventured
- 3. Crossing
- 4. The Gold under the Mountain
- 5. Ditching and Hitching
- 6. “The Road Must Be Built”
- 7. “Egyptian Kings and Dynasties Shall Be Forgotten”
- 8. Dungeons and Depredations
- 9. Living Up to the Landscape
- 10. Command and Control
- 11. “The Machine of Steam on the Road of Iron”
- 12. Unmasked
- 13. Gone Dark
- 14. Ingeniously Contrived Devices
- 15. Deposed
- 16. The Fundamental Standard
- 17. Sex and Socialism
- 18. “God Forgive Me My Sins. Am I Prepared to Meet My Dear Ones?”
- Requiem: American Disruptor
- Notes
- Bibliographical Note
- Bibliography
- Index
- About the Author
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