Sara Miles

How to Hack a Party Line (eBook, ePUB)

The Democrats and Silicon Valley

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

The gripping story of the emergence of a powerful new force in American politics

Sara Miles's How to Hack the Party Line is the first book to explain the political significance of the high-technology industry, and to show the birth of a relationship between the new millionaires of the Information Age and power-hungry Washington insiders that will shape the politics of the twenty-first century.

Packed with exclusive, behind-the-scenes reporting, How to Hack a Party Line chronicles a high-stakes experiment: the creation of Silicon Valley's first political machine. The book explores the often contradictory forces behind Silicon Valley's political awakening -- a mixture of naive libertarian sentiment, northern California social attitudes, aggressive business instincts, and a raw desire for power. Simultaneously it looks at centrist "new Democrats" who have left behind the labor coalitions of the industrial economy and are seeking a new identity in the values proclaimed by high-tech capitalists: growth, globalism, efficiency, and innovation.

How to Hack the Party Line combines a colorful, character-rich narrative with serious reporting and political analysis. It asks what values prosper when high-tech business becomes the metaphor for society? And how, in the twenty-first century, will democracy respond?

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. Juli 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781466894242
• Artikelnr.: 42972281

Autorenporträt

Sara Miles is a journalist who has covered the politics of Silicon Valley for the New York Times Magazine, Wired, and Wired News. Her work has appeared in numerous publications, including the New Yorker, the New York Times, Mother Jones, and Out magazine.