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DESCRIPTION:Event Sponsor\n\nBill Lane Center for the American West\nStanfo
 rd Department of History\n\nLocation\n\nLane History Corner\, Room 307\, B
 uilding 200\n450 Jane Stanford Way\, Stanford\, CA 94305\n\nMap\n\nAdmissi
 on Information\n\nRSVP here for the in-person event. \n\nRSVP here for the
  Zoom webinar. \n\n\n\nThe Western History Lecture Series presents Margare
 t O'Mara\, Scott and Dorothy Bullitt Professor of American History at the 
 University of Washington. Margaret's talk\, "Billionaires of the American 
 West: From the Big Four To Big Tech" will be held on Monday\, October 23\,
  2023\, and is co-hosted by the Bill Lane Center and the Stanford Departme
 nt of History. The American West has produced enormous business empires an
 d personal fortunes with outsized influence on American culture\, economy\
 , and politics\, from the Gilded Age to the present day. Drawing upon her 
 new research\, Margaret O’Mara considers 150 years of extreme wealth in 
 the West\, its causes and consequences\, and the commonalities of personal
 ity\, politics\, and place that tie Western billionaires past and present.
 \n\n\n\nPhoto Credit: Jim Garner\n\nMargaret O’Mara is a leading histori
 an of Silicon Valley and the author of two acclaimed books about the moder
 n American technology industry: The Code: Silicon Valley and the Remaking 
 of America (Penguin Press\, 2019) and Cities of Knowledge: Cold War Scienc
 e and the Search For The Next Silicon Valley (Princeton\, 2005). She also 
 is a historian of the American presidency and author of Pivotal Tuesdays: 
 Four Elections that Shaped the Twentieth Century (Penn Press\, 2015). She 
 is a coauthor\, with David Kennedy and Lizabeth Cohen\, of the widely used
  United States history college textbook\, The American Pageant (Cengage).\
 n\nHer writing on technology\, politics\, and society has appeared in The 
 New York Times\, The Washington Post\, WIRED\, MIT Technology Review\, The
  American Prospect\, and other major national and international publicatio
 ns. Margaret’s historical perspective on current events also has been se
 en and heard on a range of major broadcast television and radio outlets\, 
 including CNN\, MSNBC\, PBS\, BBC\, CBC\, and NPR. She is an active public
  speaker\, regularly lecturing before general and academic audiences about
  Silicon Valley's evolution and the impact of its people\, companies\, and
  politics on the United States and the world. She also speaks often (espec
 ially in election years) about the past\, present\, and future of the Amer
 ican presidency.\n\nMargaret is an OAH Distinguished Lecturer and a past f
 ellow of the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences\, the Am
 erican Council of Learned Societies\, and the National Forum on the Future
  of Liberal Education. She is a series editor of the Politics and Society 
 in Modern America series at Princeton University Press and serves on the e
 ditorial board of Modern American History.\n\nShe received her MA/PhD from
  the University of Pennsylvania and her BA from Northwestern University. S
 he is an alumna of Little Rock Central High School. Prior to her academic 
 career\, she served in the Clinton Administration\, working on economic an
 d social policy in the White House and in the U.S. Department of Health an
 d Human Services.
LOCATION:Lane History Corner\,  Building 200 450 Jane Stanford Way\, Stanfo
 rd\, CA 94305\, Room 307
SUMMARY:Billionaires of the American West From the Big Four To Big Tech
URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.stanford.edu/event/Billionaires_American_West
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