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 […]