The Valley of Heart's Delight: A Silicon Valley Notebook, 1963-2001

By Michael S. Malone

Book Overview

The history of the heart of the high-tech world
Mike Malone is a journalist who has covered Silicon Valley for nearly twenty years. This book combines the best of his work from a variety of renowned publications to offer a true-to-life glimpse of the world's most important industrial community. These stories form a picture of a place at the center of cultural, economic, and technological advancement and the people who live there, from dot.com millionaires to everyday working people just trying to get by. Not confined to its present technological significance, the book looks at the rich history of the Valley and the future that awaits it. Meticulously researched and broad in scope, The Valley of Heart's Delight is the definitive biography of a place of massive cultural and political significance.
Michael S. Malone (Palo Alta, CA) joined the San Jose Mercury News in 1980 as the nation's first daily high-tech reporter. His writings on Silicon Valley earned him two Pulitzer Prize nominations. He has also written for the New York Times, the Boston Globe, the Dallas Morning News, the Wall Street Journal, and the Los Angeles Times. He is currently the Editor at Large for ASAP.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 047120191X
• ISBN13: 9780471201915
• Release Date: July 2002
• Publisher: Wiley
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 1.22 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.4" x 9.3"

Customer Reviews

Still dreaming of SV

Incorporates a random selection of writings which, in their whole, describes the last 30+ years of SV life.

If you want to understand Silicon Valley,

If you want to understand Silicon Valley, you'll want to read about it through Mike Malone's eyes. There may be individuals with greater business acumen or longer residential histories, but no one can tell the story about Silicon Valley better than Malone. With incomparable journalistic skills and in depth industry know-how, Malone has assembled a series of stories and columns that chronicle the growth of the Valley and, serendipitously, his own career. Because it is an anthology of sorts, the book does not flow in any singular direction. Nonetheless, the collection is rich with insights on technology breakthroughs, towering personalities and company histories. From high tech "scavengers" to venture capitalists But most important, Malone fills us with strands of individual success and failures, the weave of which is the tapestry known as Silicon Valley. Perhaps the only negative about the volume is that its contents are largely a reprise of earlier Malone writings. If only he'd tell us more....