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"...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 WestAward-winning journalist and author Roland De Wolk wi

Excerpted from American Disruptor: The Scandalous Life of Leland Stanford by Roland De WolkThe origins of the Stanford campus and the Silicon Valley it has incubated, borne, and sustained could not have had a more unlikely birthplace: a frontier bar called the Bull’s Head tavern in the b