American Disruptor: The Scandalous Life of Leland Stanford
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- čas přidán 17. 08. 2020
- 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.
Roland De Wolk is a U.C. Berkeley educated historian who left academia for a career in journalism, then returned to teach at a San Francisco Bay Area university as an adjunct while retaining his prize-winning investigative reporting work.
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This video helped me so much with my AP US History project, thanks!
Interesting video. It's mentioned that Leyland is appointed judge by Placer County and ran his courtroom out of his bar, The Empire in Cold Springs. If true, Cold Springs is in El Dorado County. He did spend time in Placer County at Michigan Bluff.
In the little town of Sutter creek: on Spanish Street. a street parallel to the main street, which is Old Route 49..
There is a big house set in 1/2 acre- it did belong to Stanford. It may have been a rooming house while he owned it. It has a plaque on the fence. It is lovely to see & a private residence.
Fascinating. I'll definitely have to read this.
People didn't smile in photos back then as it was thought to look.... cheesy.
M.L.Wicks
WHO YOU LEFT ALOT OF HIS STORY OUT WHY DO CAUCASIANS DO THAT YOU DIDN'T EVEN MENTION THE CHEAP LABOR HIS RACIST IDEOLOGY 🤔 😒