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The Contrarian: Peter Thiel and Silicon Valley's Pursuit of Power
By Chafkin, Max & Cobb, Jelani & David Remnick, eds & Hill, Fiona & Pinker, Steven & Srinivasan, Amia & Streep, Abe
- ISBN
- 9781984878533 9780063017597 9780358574316 9780525561996 9780374248529 9781250210685
- Publisher
- Penguin Pr. Ecco Houghton Harcourt Viking Farrar Celadon: Macmillan
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Reviewed on May 1, 2021 | Prepub Alert
Features editor and a tech reporter at Bloomberg Businessweek, Chafkin tells the story of The Contrarian, that is, billionaire venture capitalist and entrepreneur Peter Thiel, who has significantly influenced the course of Silicon Valley. Columbia history/journalism professor Cobb and New Yorker editor Remnick illuminate The Matter of Black Lives in pieces collected from the magazine, starting with Rebecca West's account of a lynching trial and James Baldwin's "Letter from a Region in My Mind" and moving on to embrace works by Toni Morrison, Ta-Nehisi Coates, Zadie Smith, Hilton Als, Jamaica Kincaid, and Henry Louis Gates Jr., among others (100,000-copy first printing). Having left beh...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
