Michael A Hiltzik: 2 books
The Plot Against Social Security
How the Bush Plan Is Endangering Our Financial Future
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009
Relentless and ominous, the drumbeat echoes across the land: Social Security is on the verge of bankruptcy. These repeated warnings have become a dismal article of faith for the millions of Americans who pay Social Security taxes and expect to collect benefits someday. But they are flatly untrue.
Social...
Dealers of Lightning
Xerox PARC and the Dawn of the Computer Age
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2009
In the bestselling tradition of The Soul of a New Machine, Dealers of Lightning is a fascinating journey of intellectual creation. In the 1970s and '80s, Xerox Corporation brought together a brain-trust of engineering geniuses, a group of computer eccentrics dubbed PARC. This brilliant group created...