Books
The Code
Silicon Valley and the Remaking of America
The epic human story of how, out of a small patch of land in Northern California, high tech recreated America in its image, for good and for ill.
Available at Penguin Press or Amazon.
Pivotal Tuesdays
Four Elections That Shaped the Twentieth Century
A story of politics, and a story of a nation and its people. Four pivotal presidential elections of the American century, and the great cultural and political transformations that surrounded them.
Available at Penn Press or Amazon.
Cities of Knowledge
Cold War Science and the Search for the Next Silicon Valley
How high-tech regions came to be, what the Cold War had to do with it, and how research universities became agents of America's political and economic transformation.
Available at Princeton University Press or Amazon.
Public writing
Even Busts Can be Good for Tech, The Information, February 2023
How Antitrust Laws Can Save Silicon Valley, The Washington Post, July 2019
The Other Tech Bubble, The American Prospect, Winter 2016
TR and Trump: Two Very Different People, But There's This One Significant Similarity, History News Network, September 2015
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