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Leland Stanford bribed, stole, and murdered his way to fame and acclaim
In American Disruptor, journalist Roland De Wolk describes his subject as “blessed and damned,” A label justified by the author’s deep dig into Stanford’s uproarious life and variegated career.
Descended from early New Englanders, Stanford was the eighth of eight sons in a farm family.
Born in a backwoods bar in Watervliet, New York, he grew up near enough the Erie Canal and the country’s first chartered railroad, the Mohawk and Hudson, to gain a taste for movement and autonomy.
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“If one person can personify the epic historic evolution of agrarian, adolescent America into industrial world power, there is no better avatar than Leland Stanford,” De Wolk writes.
Young Stanford flopped at nearly everything—quitting high school, claiming without basis to have passed the bar, by age 28 broke.
His brothers, who had gone west chasing gold, had succeeded at retail. In 1854 Leland went to Califo