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Podcast: Behind the Mic With Kirkus Reviews
Episode: PALO ALTO by Malcolm Harris, read by Patrick Harrison
Description: Patrick Harrison combines a fine storytelling style with a sure sense of the dramatic and a good tempo as he narrates Malcom Harris’s monumental work. Host Jo Reed and AudioFile’s Alan Minskoff discuss this activist’s look at his hometown and the powerful institutions that reside there, revealing the dark side of Silicon Valley. The thesis is that technological innovators and their political allies became unfathomably wealthy as they despoiled the planet, exploited workers, and were ruthless in the accumulation of money and power. Harrison’s resonant voice fits this prodigiously researched audiobook.Read the full rev...