{"product_id":"american-disruptor-9780520383234","title":"American Disruptor","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Readable and entertaining. . . . De Wolk not only introduces a much more believable Stanford, warts and all, but also does a great job of showing how his legacy and reputation was managed, massaged and sanitized after his death.\" * True West *\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eAmerican Disruptor\u003c\/i\u003e provides a dense but swift-moving primer on Stanford’s rise from tavern owner’s son to tycoon.\"  * Stanford Magazine *\u003cbr\u003e\"The original tech bro? Leland Stanford, co-founder of Stanford University, emerges as a spiritual forefather of Silicon Valley-style monopolism, exploitation and conflicts of interest in this dramatic new biography by Bay Area journalism professor Roland De Wolk.\" * KQED Arts *\u003cbr\u003e\"A superb new account of Stanford’s 'preposterous career and life.'\" * Berkeleyside *\u003cbr\u003e\"Stanford was an uneducated anti-intellectual, yet defined himself as “a technologist” and wanted Stanford University to thrive as a trade school. He played a major role in vaulting America into peak ascendancy, yet had few qualms bilking taxpayers out of millions of dollars in the process (before going on to be a U.S. Senator). And those are just a few of the threads that De Wolk pulls to weave an engaging and highly relevant portrait of a profoundly influential, turbulent and, yes—“scandalous” life.\" * The Six Fifty *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments\u003cbr\u003e Prologue: Fell Redemption\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 1. Start-Up\u003cbr\u003e 2. Everything Ventured\u003cbr\u003e 3. Crossing\u003cbr\u003e 4. The Gold under the Mountain\u003cbr\u003e 5. Ditching and Hitching\u003cbr\u003e 6. “The Road Must Be Built”\u003cbr\u003e 7. “Egyptian Kings and Dynasties Shall Be Forgotten”\u003cbr\u003e 8. Dungeons and Depredations\u003cbr\u003e 9. Living Up to the Landscape\u003cbr\u003e 10. Command and Control\u003cbr\u003e 11. “The Machine of Steam on the Road of Iron”\u003cbr\u003e 12. Unmasked\u003cbr\u003e 13. Gone Dark\u003cbr\u003e 14. Ingeniously Contrived Devices\u003cbr\u003e 15. Deposed\u003cbr\u003e 16. The Fundamental Standard\u003cbr\u003e 17. Sex and Socialism\u003cbr\u003e 18. “God Forgive Me My Sins. Am I Prepared to Meet My Dear Ones?”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Requiem: American Disruptor\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Notes\u003cbr\u003e Bibliographical Note\u003cbr\u003e Bibliography\u003cbr\u003e Index\u003cbr\u003e About the Author\u003cbr\u003e Illustrations","brand":"University of California Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49402953335127,"sku":"9780520383234","price":20.7,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780520383234.jpg?v=1730481953","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/american-disruptor-9780520383234","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}