Roland De Wolk: American Disruptor
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Thurs Nov 14, 2019, 7 pm
Folio: The Seattle Athenaeum
Pike Place Market (Seattle)
$10
The story of Leland Stanford should be better known: because he founded Stanford University, because he commissioned Eadward Muybridge's famous photographic studies of horses, and because he was a world-class swine. De Wolk's biography details how the once-"serial failure" rose to become a stupendously wealthy robber baron, railroad tycoon, politician, and "this country's original 'disruptor.'" Scandal pursued his family even after his death, when his widow, who essentially ran Stanford University, was fatally poisoned and the crime covered up.