Palo Alto
A History of California, Capitalism, and the World
- Paperback
720 pages
- Release Date
12 July 2023
Summary
The true, unvarnished history of the town at the heart of Silicon Valley.
Palo Alto is nice. The weather is temperate, the people are educated, rich, healthy, enterprising. Remnants of a hippie counterculture have synthesized with high technology and big finance to produce the spiritually and materially ambitious heart of Silicon Valley, whose products are changing how we do everything from driving around to eating food. It is also a haunted toxic waste dump built on …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781529430882 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 1529430887 |
| Author: | Malcolm Harris |
| Publisher: | Quercus Publishing |
| Imprint: | riverrun |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 720 |
| Release Date: | 12 July 2023 |
| Weight: | 860g |
| Dimensions: | 232mm x 152mm x 58mm |
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Critics Review
Harris’s earlier book Kids These Days was a broad cultural history of millennials, zeroing in on the unfair economic stereotypes that have dogged the generation. Now, he tells an ambitious story of Silicon Valley, showing how its specific culture and history allowed it to become the site of both breathtaking technological advancement and capitalist exploitation. * Joumana Khatib, NEW YORK TIMES *Unsparing… Its narrative has the intoxifying capitalist rush of The Lehman Trilogy… Uneasily compelling * The Spectator *Cathartic and illuminating… readers will leave this book gifted with a trove of information, a lurch in their stomach, and a sense of foreboding about the future * Irish Independent *
About The Author
Malcolm Harris
Malcolm Harris is a freelance writer and the author of Kids These Days: The Making of Millennials and Shit is Fucked Up and Bullshit: History Since the End of History. He was born in Santa Cruz, CA and graduated from the University of Maryland.
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