Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Archaeology
Languages : en
Pages : 216
Book Description
The Bottles of Old Sacramento
Author: John Henry Nash: the Biography of a Career
Author: Robert D. HarlanPublisher: Berkeley : University of California Press
ISBN: 9780520017122
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 192
Book Description
Who Killed Jane Stanford?: A Gilded Age Tale of Murder, Deceit, Spirits and the Birth of a University
Author: Richard WhitePublisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 1324004347
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 394
Book Description
Named One of the Best Nonfiction Books of 2022 by the Los Angeles Times A premier historian penetrates the fog of corruption and cover-up still surrounding the murder of a Stanford University founder to establish who did it, how, and why. In 1885 Jane and Leland Stanford cofounded a university to honor their recently deceased young son. After her husband’s death in 1893, Jane Stanford, a devoted spiritualist who expected the university to inculcate her values, steered Stanford into eccentricity and public controversy for more than a decade. In 1905 she was murdered in Hawaii, a victim, according to the Honolulu coroner’s jury, of strychnine poisoning. With her vast fortune the university’s lifeline, the Stanford president and his allies quickly sought to foreclose challenges to her bequests by constructing a story of death by natural causes. The cover-up gained traction in the murky labyrinths of power, wealth, and corruption of Gilded Age San Francisco. The murderer walked. Deftly sifting the scattered evidence and conflicting stories of suspects and witnesses, Richard White gives us the first full account of Jane Stanford’s murder and its cover-up. Against a backdrop of the city’s machine politics, rogue policing, tong wars, and heated newspaper rivalries, White’s search for the murderer draws us into Jane Stanford’s imperious household and the academic enmities of the university. Although Stanford officials claimed that no one could have wanted to murder Jane, we meet several people who had the motives and the opportunity to do so. One of these, we discover, also had the means.
Catalog of Printed Books
Author: Bancroft LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 818
Book Description
University of California Publications in Librarianship
Author: Robert D. HarlanPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Library science
Languages : en
Pages : 204
Book Description
Publications in Librarianship
Author: University of California, BerkeleyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Library science
Languages : en
Pages : 202
Book Description
Crocker-Langley San Francisco Directory
Author: Publisher:
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Category : San Francisco (Calif.)
Languages : en
Pages : 2104
Book Description
Imperial San Francisco
Author: Judd KahnPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 298
Book Description
Examines the design of the city in the decade before the Earthquake and Fire of 1906, city politics, the Burnham plan, and why the city rebuilt itself on the old order rather than adopting a new design.
The National Union Catalog, Pre-1956 Imprints
Author: Library of CongressPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Catalogs, Union
Languages : en
Pages : 750
Book Description
The Swiss Experience in San Francisco
Author: Catherine Bosshart-PflugerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 204
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