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A New Utopia: A Political History of the Silicon Valley, 1945 to 1995

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 November 2019

J. A. ESTRUTH*
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J. A. Estruth is currently a Postdoctoral Visiting Scholar at the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and an affiliate with the Harvard Law School Berkman-Klein Center for Internet and Society, where she is working on her book manuscript. She completed her doctorate in United States History at New York University in 2018. E-mail: jestruth@law.harvard.edu.

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Krooss Prize Dissertation Summaries
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