Michael A Hiltzik

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1) Iron empires: robber barons, railroads, and the making of modern America

Author

Hiltzik, Michael A

Publisher

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Pub. Date

2020.

Language

English

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"From Pulitzer Prize-winner Michael Hiltzik, the epic tale of the clash for supremacy between America's railroad titans"--

2) Dealers of Lightning: Xerox PARC and the Dawn of the Computer Age

Author

Hiltzik, Michael A

Language

English

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Dealers of Lightning is the riveting story of the legendary Xerox PARC'a collection of eccentric young inventors brought together by Xerox Corporation at a facility in Palo Alto, California, during the mind-blowing intellectual ferment of the seventies and eighties. Here for the first time is revealed in piercing detail the true story of the extraordinary group that aimed to bring about a technological dawn that would change the world'and succeeded....