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Making Silicon Valley: Innovation and the Growth of High Tech, 1930-1970. By Christophe Lécuyer. (Cambridge: MIT Press, 2006. xii, 393 pp. $40.00, ISBN 0-262-12281-2.)
In his new study of the early entrepreneurs and companies that grew in the patch of northern California countryside that later became Silicon Valley, Christophe Lécuyer adds to a growing assembly of books that pushes the history of this technology region back several decades and integrates its story into the broader currents of American history. Making Silicon Valleys particular contribution here is showing that Silicon Valley's distinctive business subculture of small, highly collaborative, and closely interrelated firms appeared well before the 1990s Internet bubble, the 1970s personal computer revolution, or even the 1950s "HP Way." Each chapter is a...