Palo Alto: A History of California, Capitalism, and the World John Boyne Set in the volatile Paris

Set in the volatile Paris summer of 1938

This is an eye-opening and surprisingly moving book

Set out in two parts

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Palo Alto: A History of California, Capitalism, and the World John Boyne Set in the volatile Paris'Revelatory and illuminating' New Yorker 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