Margaret O Mara: 3 books
The Code
Silicon Valley and the Remaking of America
Language: English
Release Date: July 9, 2019
The true, behind-the-scenes history of the people who built Silicon Valley and shaped Big Tech in America
Long before Margaret O'Mara became one of our most consequential historians of the American-led digital revolution, she worked in the White House of Bill Clinton and Al Gore in the earliest...
Pivotal Tuesdays
Four Elections That Shaped the Twentieth Century
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2015
Serious and silly, unifying and polarizing, presidential elections have become events that Americans love and hate. Today's elections cost billions of dollars and consume the nation's attention for months, filling television airwaves and online media with endless advertising and political punditry,...
Cities of Knowledge
Cold War Science and the Search for the Next Silicon Valley
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2015
What is the magic formula for turning a place into a high-tech capital? How can a city or region become a high-tech powerhouse like Silicon Valley? For over half a century, through boom times and bust, business leaders and politicians have tried to become "the next Silicon Valley," but few...