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100 1  White, Richard,|d1947-|eauthor. 
245 10 Who killed Jane Stanford? :|ba gilded age tale of murder, 
       deceit, spirits and the birth of a university /|cRichard 
       White. 
250    First edition. 
264  1 New York, NY :|bW.W. Norton & Company,|c[2022] 
300    xviii, 362 pages :|billustrations ;|c24 cm 
336    text|btxt|2rdacontent 
337    unmediated|bn|2rdamedia 
338    volume|bnc|2rdacarrier 
504    Includes bibliographical references (pages 303-349) and 
       index. 
520    "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"--|cProvided by publisher. 
600 10 Stanford, Jane Lathrop,|d1828-1905. 
650  0 Murder|zHawaii|vCase studies. 
650  0 Stanford University|xHistory. 
650  0 Conspiracy|zHawaii.