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Guardian, 10 Books

"From histories of world-conquering innovations to fiction that explores their dark side, a leading chronicler of this giddying world chooses the best guides".
By Leslie Berlin, who is Project Historian for the Silicon Valley Archives at Stanford University. She has been a Fellow at the Center for Advanced Studies in the Behavioral Sciences and served on the advisory committee to the Lemelson Center for the Study of Invention and Innovation at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History. Leslie was a “Prototype” columnist for The New York Times and has commented on Silicon Valley for the Wall Street Journal, NPR, PBS, The Atlantic and Wired.Former Google chairman Eric Schmidt called publication of Troublemakers, her book exploring how Silicon Valley during the 1970s set the stage for our modern high-tech world, “a landmark event.”
She has a PhD in History from Stanford and her BA in American Studies is from Yale.

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