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Malcolm Harris: Palo Alto (2023, Little Brown & Company) 3 stars

Palo Alto’s weather is temperate, its people are educated and enterprising, its corporations are spiritually …

Palo Alto

4 stars

Very good on the whole, although a bit of a slog. I especially appreciated the early history of California, which was much better than the whitewashed version I got in school. The bits on Stanford and Palo Alto history were enlightening as well. By the time it got to silicon valley, it was mostly stuff I was already aware of, but still historically accurate and worthwhile criticism.