Palo Alto: A History of California, Capitalism, and the World by Malcolm Harris

Palo Alto: A History of California, Capitalism, and the World

Malcolm Harris

720 pages first pub 2023 (editions)

nonfiction history technology informative medium-paced
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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 a...

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