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title: "Who Killed Jane Stanford?: A Gilded Age Tale of Murder, Deceit, Spirits and the Birth of a University"
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price: "187 zł"
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# Who Killed Jane Stanford?: A Gilded Age Tale of Murder, Deceit, Spirits and the Birth of a University

**Brand:** richard white
**Price:** 187 zł
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- **What is this?** Who Killed Jane Stanford?: A Gilded Age Tale of Murder, Deceit, Spirits and the Birth of a University by richard white
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Who Killed Jane Stanford?: A Gilded Age Tale of Murder, Deceit, Spirits and the Birth of a University

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## Customer Reviews

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    A Murder, A Coverup, Another Coverup, And A Fine Institution
  

*by J***D on Reviewed in the United States on 11 December 2022*

This is a complex and intertwined tale of the murder of an extremely wealthy but tiresome elderly lady named Jane Stanford.  She was the widow of Leland Stanford, Sr., who made millions through shady business dealings in the late nineteenth century.  Jane Stanford and her husband founded what was to become Stanford University as a memorial to their only child, a son who died at 15 in the 1880s.  Neither of the Stanfords had much knowledge of how a university should be run, and they were constant thorns in the side for the administrators and scholars whom they hired.  Jane Stanford was a particularly annoying presence in the history of the University's early years.  Besides attempting to micromanage the place, she also caused problems for the school's officials by insisting on making spiritualism one of its guiding principles.Then in early 1905 Jane Stanford suddenly died, apparently of strychnine poisoning.  The investigation of her death became a cause celebre for newspapers in San Francisco and throughout the United States. Richard White's account of Stanford's early history, the death of Jane Stanford, and the ensuing investigations and details is a thorough and well documented story involving deceit, racism, financial misdealings, and the enduring mystery of what actually happened.  Sometimes all the detail made for slow going, but I found that sticking with it all paid off in the end because White manages to draw the multiple threads to a satisfactory hypothesis as to who killed her and why in his Epilogue.

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    AWESOME
  

*by J***N on Reviewed in Canada on 22 September 2022*

AWESOME

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    A Fascinating Expose
  

*by E***S on Reviewed in the United States on 28 May 2022*

My husband and I both earned graduate degrees at Stanford. I got my Ph.D. in 1977 and he received his J.D. and M.B.A. a couple of years later. Neither of us ever heard that Jane Stanford had been murdered. I remember seeing photos of Stanford University before the 1906 earthquake and thinking that Jane Stanford would have been devastated by the destruction, but that the architecture was much improved in the rebuilding.I listened to Prof. White's presentation on his book to the Stanford Historical Society and immediately ordered a copy. His deeply researched description of the differences between the goals of Jane Stanford and the University's first President, David Starr Jordan, and the board of directors was eye-opening, and very convincing.The self-serving human behaviors that drive the action in 1905 are still factors in business and politics. The book is a reminder that we should look beyond headlines to understand the political battles that are on-going around us.

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