The Role of Leland Stanford in the Rise of the University

Leland Stanford is the oligarch of the West. His job is to stand in front of railroad capital and play the role of railroad baron. He's credited with bringing in Chinese workers to complete the railroad, which upsets the racial and labor dynamics of the West at that point. The intangibles of that production process, that Palo Alto system, we themselves into the DNA of Stanford as it becomes a university.