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Hillary Jordan • Anonymous Sex
“The Entertainment Technology Center” (www.etc.cmu.edu),
Jeffrey Zaslow • The Last Lecture
I’m a sucker for Puritan New England and the Civil War. Because those two subjects feature the central tension of American life, the conflict between freedom and community, between individual will and the public good.
Sarah Vowell • The Partly Cloudy Patriot
Guy Kawasaki, “From the Desk of Management Changes at Apple,” MacUser, December 1991, and then a follow-up piece, “How to Prevent a Bozo Explosion,” How to Change the World, February 26, 2006, http://blog.guykawasaki.com/2006/02/how_to_prevent_.html.
Greg Mckeown • Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less
in 2011 she was working as a home health aide and giving facials in the apartment, whispering to her clients about 9/11 conspiracy theories with increasing fervor.
Susan Clare Zalkind • The Waltham Murders: One Woman’s Pursuit to Expose the Truth Behind a Murder and a National Tragedy
American Heiress: The Wild Saga of the Kidnapping, Crimes and Trial of Patty Hearst
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He regularly invited top computer scientists to his office to explain emerging trends in hardware and software. He had three home computers. He was typing a future bestseller, Earth in the Balance, on an early laptop. He went to computer-industry conferences, wrote articles for Scientific American, and fluently spoke the language of VLSI and AI,
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I’ve met Ayn Rand fanatics all over—among Silicon Valley venture capitalists, at the office of the Tampa Bay Tea Party, even on a road paving crew. Speaker of the House Paul Ryan (who read Atlas Shrugged in high school) brought her pitiless philosophy of egoism to policymaking on Capitol Hill. Libertarianism speaks to the American myth of the
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