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Who Killed Jane Stanford? - A Gilded Age Tale of Murder, Deceit, Spirits and the Birth of a University (Paperback)
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Who Killed Jane Stanford? - A Gilded Age Tale of Murder, Deceit, Spirits and the Birth of a University (Paperback)
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In 1885 Jane and Leland Stanford co-founded a university to honour
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...
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Imprint: |
W W Norton & Co Inc
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Country of origin: |
United States |
Release date: |
April 2023 |
Authors: |
Richard White
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Dimensions: |
211 x 140 x 25mm (L x W x T) |
Format: |
Paperback
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Pages: |
400 |
ISBN-13: |
978-1-324-06442-8 |
Categories: |
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LSN: |
1-324-06442-0 |
Barcode: |
9781324064428 |
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