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

NATIONAL BESTSELLER “Welcome and necessary…illuminating and revelatory.” – The New YorkerThe history of Silicon Valley, from railroads to microchips, is an “extraordinary”* story of disruption and destruction, told for the first time in this comprehensive, jaw-dropping narrative. (*Greg Grandin, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The End of the Myth)