American University Studies

The Life and Times of Leigh S.J. Hunt

By: Laurance B. Rand

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Hardcover | 1 October 1989

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High Stakes is a biography of Leigh S.J. Hunt (1855-1933), a visionary entrepreneur whose advice and whose business activities in the United States and in Asia influenced Presidents Theodore Roosevelt and Herbert Hoover. Hunt played a major role in the early growth of Seattle and Las Vegas, organized and developed the richest gold mine concession in late nineteenth-century Korea, and established the cotton industry in the Sudan. Throughout his life, he sought new frontiers and transformed them into productive units. He risked his and others' money in pursuit of personal challenge and the expansion of his nation's economy.

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I found this book to be of great interest as the life story of a unique and appealing man. It will also contribute to social and economic history of the period. It is certainly an important contribution to the field. (Clement Biddle Wood, Author of Welcome to the Club) ...a thoroughly researched and carefully annotated story of a fascinating American whose exploits were larger than life. (Randolph Miller, Horace Bushnell Professor of Christian Education, Yale Divinity School) Rand has an interesting subject and narrative style. (Robert Nesbit, Olympia) Rand's book is a useful contribution to the literature. Based on extensive research, it succeeds in placing Hunt within the larger context of American political and economic history. (Eugene P. Moehring, Nevada Historical Science Quarterly)

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