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03007aam a2200325 i 4500 001 E70637D856B111EEB3013A8641ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20230919010045 008 230417t20232022||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 020 $a 1324064420 020 $a 9781324064428 035 $a (OCoLC)1376281876 040 $d TxAuBib $e rda $d SILO 100 1 $a White, Richard, $e author. 245 1 $a Who killed Jane Stanford? $h [BOOK] : $b a gilded age tale of murder, deceit, spirits and the birth of a university / $c Richard White. 264 1 $a New York, NY : $b W.W. Norton & Company, $c 2023. 300 $a xviii, 362 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : $b illustrations ; $c 22 cm. 504 $a Includes bibliographical references (pages 303-349) and index. 505 $a Poland Spring Water -- Founding a university -- Quarrels -- A system of absolutism -- Travels toward a poisoning -- Death comes for Mrs. Stanford -- The investigation begins -- The investigation -- The cover-up -- Jane Stanford comes home -- Who killed her? 520 $a "A premier historian penetrates the fog of corruption and cover-up still surrounding the murder of a Stanford University founder to establish who did it, how, and why. In 1885 Jane and Leland Stanford cofounded a university to honor 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"-- $c Provided by publisher. 541 $d 20230530. 600 1 $a Stanford, Jane Lathrop, $d 1828-1905. 610 2 $a Stanford University $x History. 650 $a Murder $z Hawaii $v Case studies. 650 $a Conspiracy $z Hawaii. 655 7 $a Case studies. 655 7 $a True crime stories. 941 $a 1 952 $l WXPD305 $d 20230919010852.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=E70637D856B111EEB3013A8641ECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search