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The Immigrant and the University
Karin Sveen, one of Norway’s most accomplished writers, pieces together a story yet untold—a beautifully crafted biography based on her dedicated search for scraps of information. The result gives readers a look at the life of a successful entrepreneur and a leading California patron who engaged in public education on all levels; supported Abraham Lincoln; and worked to give emancipated slaves housing, schooling, and employment after the Civil War. His legacy and vivid persona and the frontier city of his time are brought to life with interesting anecdotes of many famous people— General William T. Sherman, Walt Whitman, Mark Twain, Robert Louis Stevenson, the Norwegian violinist Ole Bull, and above all, his close friend Anthony J. Drexel, legendary Philadelphia financier and one of the founders of Wall Street.
Barbara J. Haveland has translated for many notable Scandinavian authors, including Peter Høeg, Linn Ullmann, and Jan Kjærstad.
"This elegant and meticulously researched biography of the San Francisco banker and philanthropist Peder Sather is impossible to put down. It has taken a Norwegian poet to give us, for the first time, the astonishing story of one of California’s—and America’s—most consequential philanthropists and the founder of our nation’s greatest public university. The story of a poor farm boy from a remote corner of Norway, who traversed continents, made a large fortune, and used it to bring learning to generations of average citizens is a monumental tribute to all that is good and great about both Norway and America. The Immigrant and the University is a remarkable accomplishment." —Carla Hesse, Peder Sather Professor and Dean of Social Sciences, University of California, Berkeley