The Valley of Heart's Delight: A Silicon Valley Notebook, 1963-2001 Hardcover - 2002

From the jacket flap

Between the end of World War II and the turn of the century, a little lush valley in the hills of California known for its orange groves completed a remarkable transformation to become the center of the technological world. Home to most of the nation's most important high-tech companies, Silicon Valley became the point of confluence for our most daring entrepreneurs, most powerful corporations, and most innovative thinkers.

No one knows more about Silicon Valley than Mike Malone. The first journalist assigned full time to the Valley's tech beat, Malone has covered the Valley from the back streets to the boardrooms and everywhere in between for over twenty years. During that time he has chronicled the life of the town at the heart of the worldwide tech boom as well as the people who live there, from its dot.com millionaires to its struggling working class.

In The Valley of Heart's Delight, news stories, essays, and feature pieces from Malone's long and renowned career illuminate the past, the present, and the future of the Valley with the skill, care, and insight of both a journalist and a Valley local. Taken from such publications as Upside, Forbes ASAP, Fast Company, the New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, and the San Jose Mercury News, these stories chronicle the Valley as well as the electronics revolution that began there. Along the way, the reader follows the progress of the remarkable invention that sparked a worldwide high-tech gold rush and made a quiet community a microcosm of our nation's journey from agricultural roots to high-tech heights.

Rather than confining himself to its present technological significance, Malone looks at the rich history of the Santa Clara Valley before Hewlett and Packard made it their headquarters, forever changing its place in history. From the legends of the past and present like Fairchild, Apple, Atari, and Intel to the designers and shapers of tomorrow's next big thing, The Valley of Heart's Delight presents the definitive biography of the single most important industrial community in the modern world.