Palo Alto: A History of California, Capitalism, and the World

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 eating food.

It is also a haunted toxic waste dump built on stolen Indian burial grounds, and an integral part of the capitalist world system.