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Margaret Pugh O’Mara. The Code: Silicon Valley and the Remaking of America. New York: Penguin Press, 2019. 512 pp. ISBN 978-0-399-56218-1, $30.00 (cloth), 978-0-399-56220-4, $20.00 (paper).

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 May 2021

J. A. Estruth*
Affiliation:
Bard College The Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society, Harvard University

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© The Author(s), 2021. Published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of the Business History Conference. All rights reserved.

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