[Portrait of Leland Stanford], California Historical Society, CHS2017_2278
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My
book, Damned Disruptor: Leland Stanford & the Scandalous History of How
One Man Created Silicon Valley’s Upheaval of Almost Everything We Do,
(Skyhorse Publishing, NY, expected to be finished sometime next year) relies
heavily on primary sources, both unexamined and unappreciated. I initially came
to the society’s research library with some skepticism. But from
the first I found priceless materials for my work at the California Historical
Society such as a surprising letter from John Sutter to Mariano Vallejo that
cast a sharp illumination I had not seen anywhere in any research.
As a UC Berkeley history graduate and long–time Bay
Area investigative journalist, I know the value of serious archival research
and those rare places such as the Bancroft, Huntington and California
Historical Society that make it possible. I am indebted to it and all those who
work at and support the institution.
Roland De Wolk
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