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Author: Roland De Wolk

Historian and long-time investigative reporter and author of American Disruptor: The Scandalous Life of Leland Stanford. UC Press.

Leland Stanford, the Railroad Baron and Governor of California, was Starkly Contradictory and Infamously Disruptive

Born in his father’s East Coast backwoods bar, dying in a magnificent West Coast mansion built from his self-made fortune. Condemned as the complete robber-baron, consecrated as a singular titan of American enterprise. Exalted as the magnanimous founder of a world-class university, damned as a thief, liar, and bigot.  With all of the stark contradictions […]

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