Richard White. (2022). Who Killed Jane Stanford?: A Gilded Age Tale of Murder, Deceit, Spirits and the Birth of a University. Unabridged Tantor Media, Inc.

Richard White. 2022. Who Killed Jane Stanford?: A Gilded Age Tale of Murder, Deceit, Spirits and the Birth of a University. Tantor Media, Inc.

Richard White, Who Killed Jane Stanford?: A Gilded Age Tale of Murder, Deceit, Spirits and the Birth of a University. Tantor Media, Inc, 2022.

Richard White. Who Killed Jane Stanford?: A Gilded Age Tale of Murder, Deceit, Spirits and the Birth of a University. Unabridged Tantor Media, Inc, 2022.

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   • bioText: Richard White is the Margaret Byrne Professor Emeritus of American History at Stanford University. He is the author of many acclaimed books in American western and environmental history, including Railroaded, winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, the Parkman Prize, and a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize.
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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.

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   • content: Christopher Brown delivers a straightforward narration of this audiobook, which is subtitled "A Gilded Age Tale of Murder, Deceit, Spirits and the Birth of a University." The story features Jane Stanford, a most eccentric woman who was cofounder of Stanford University (1885) with her husband and who steered the institution after his death in 1893. Jane Stanford was murdered in Hawaii in 1905, just months after she escaped strychnine poisoning at home. Brown's performance is rapid-fire and barely inflected while reciting scary, often conflicting facts; memos; newspaper articles; court and medical reports; and secondhand conversations revolving around Jane and her household before and after her death. Eschewing accent and emotion, Brown's performance challenges listeners' to remain attentive to this intriguing, very cold, murder investigation. M.B.K. © AudioFile 2022, Portland, Maine
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     Christopher P. Brown delivers this fascinating Gilded Age true-crime story in an academic but conversational lecture style well suited for historian White's (emeritus, Stanford; California Exposures) latest work, especially since the award-winning historian often writes in the first person. Stanford campus tours for prospective students convey the university's origin story of its founders, railroad magnate Leland Stanford and his wife Jane, as grieving parents who founded Stanford to memorialize their deceased son. However, White says the truth involves "a dubious and insecure fortune, laundered into a monument to the founding family, and a school rejuvenated through the blood of one of its founders." White and his students combed through university archives for clues to Jane's death, ruled at the 1905 inquest as strychnine poisoning, and sought reasons why university administrators adamantly insisted that her death was from natural causes. Brown's smooth delivery and excellent pacing glides listeners through the often-bizarre events of Jane's final years, as well as the interesting background details about how robber baron Leland secured his fortune and the incredible levels of corruption at the university and San Francisco government and business sectors. VERDICT A must-listen for history buffs and true crime fans.--Beth Farrell

     Copyright 2022 Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.

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     True crime doesn’t come more stranger than fiction than the unsolved murder of Jane Stanford (1828–1905), the widow of robber baron Leland Stanford, who died in Hawaii of strychnine poisoning a month after a previous attempt to kill her the same way in San Francisco. Despite her wealth and power (among other things, she and her husband founded Stanford University), her murder was covered up; the true cause of death was concealed from the public for years; and it was reported that she’d died from heart failure. White (Railroaded: The Transcontinentals and the Making of Modern America), an emeritus professor of American history at Stanford who has taught an undergraduate seminar on the mystery, provides the fruits of decades of research and analysis, in what is likely to be the last word on the case, including a plausible solution. He examines multiple suspects, including Stanford’s private secretary, Bertha Berner, who was present during both poisoning episodes; a Chinese servant; and university president and noted member of the university’s science faculty, David Starr Jordan, who both had access to strychnine and motive, because Stanford threatened his position after a series of disputes about the direction of the academic institution. This is an instant genre classic.

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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...

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