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About the Author

Joseph Menn has tracked Silicon Valley for the Los Angeles Times for more than four years. He is coauthor of The People vs. Big Tobacco: How the States Took on the Cigarette Giants (1998) and a principal editor of The Chronology: The Documented Day-by-Day Account of the Secret Military Assistance to Iran and the Contras (1987) and worked for Bloomberg News and the Charlotte (N.C.) Observer. He grew up in suburban Boston and was executive editor of the Harvard Crimson as an undergraduate. He lives in San Francisco with his wife and daughter.