| “The Palo Alto System, with its unholy alchemy of racism, technology, and capitalism, is nothing if not breathtakingly continuous and consistent,” Jonathan Lethem writes of Malcolm Harris’s latest book of popular history, Palo Alto. “Readers will relish” this book “for its scope and precision, for its pugnaciousness, and for its sardonic amazement at an emperor who couldn’t be strolling down the avenue any nakeder.”
In our latest special issue on spring books, Lethem reflects on Harris’s latest hefty tome, the ugly reign of Herbert Hoover, and the time Lethem and Harris first met at Occupy Wall Street. |
