Empire Builder is the previously untold story of John D. Spreckels, the pioneer who almost singlehandedly built San Diego after creating empires in sugar, shipping, transportation, and building development up and down the coast of California and across the Pacific.
Empire Builder is the previously untold story of John D. Spreckels, the pioneer who almost singlehandedly built San Diego after creating empires in sugar, shipping, transportation, and building development up and down the coast of California and across the Pacific.
Sandra E. Bonura is a historian, researcher, and writer and has taught in higher education for more than twenty years. She is the award-winning author of Light in the Queen’s Garden: Ida May Pope, Pioneer for Hawai‘i’s Daughters, 1862–1914 and An American Girl in the Hawaiian Islands: Letters of Carrie Prudence Winter, 1890–1893.
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List of Illustrations Foreword by Uwe Spiekermann Acknowledgments Prologue: “It’s Hell for the ‘One Man’ in the One-Man Town” 1. Chasing the Sweet American Dream 2. Taking Hawai‘i by Storm 3. Crazed Land Boom and Bust 4. Sugar and Strife 5. Aloha Hawai‘i 6. Raising the Spreckels Clan 7. Roots in San Francisco 8. Building San Diego’s Infrastructure 9. Earthquake, Death, and Legal (and Romantic) Chaos 10. Influencing San Diego Politics 11. Coronado’s Uncle John 12. The So-Called Impossible Railroad 13. Building Up Broadway 14. John and the Wobblies 15. Gifting the Panama–California Exposition and the Zoo 16. Standing Up to the U.S. Government 17. The Cruel 1920s 18. The Departed Skipper Epilogue: Breaking Up the Empire Notes on Sources and Research Notes Bibliography Index
List of Illustrations Foreword by Uwe Spiekermann Acknowledgments Prologue: “It’s Hell for the ‘One Man’ in the One-Man Town” 1. Chasing the Sweet American Dream 2. Taking Hawai‘i by Storm 3. Crazed Land Boom and Bust 4. Sugar and Strife 5. Aloha Hawai‘i 6. Raising the Spreckels Clan 7. Roots in San Francisco 8. Building San Diego’s Infrastructure 9. Earthquake, Death, and Legal (and Romantic) Chaos 10. Influencing San Diego Politics 11. Coronado’s Uncle John 12. The So-Called Impossible Railroad 13. Building Up Broadway 14. John and the Wobblies 15. Gifting the Panama–California Exposition and the Zoo 16. Standing Up to the U.S. Government 17. The Cruel 1920s 18. The Departed Skipper Epilogue: Breaking Up the Empire Notes on Sources and Research Notes Bibliography Index
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