Blurb quotes – Underground Empire

Wednesday, May 15, 2024

Publisher’s Weekly – “a fascinating and troubling look at the power plays enabled by a networked world.

October 7, 2018

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Chatham House – “There are several reasons to read their book: it is accessible, it is engaging and it is refreshingly concise. But most of all, they get to the heart of how power really works”

September 30, 2018

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Times Literary Supplement – “The publication of Underground Empire could thus not be more timely … an important corrective”

September 30, 2018

"The publication of Underground Empire could thus not be more timely. Henry Farrell and Abraham Newman…

Los Angeles Review of Books – “pulls off the improbable feat of rendering the intricacies of digital plumbing not only comprehensible but also captivating

September 30, 2018

"Underground Empire pulls off the improbable feat of rendering the intricacies of digital plumbing not only…

General Wesley Clark (Washington Monthly) – “Like an iceberg, most of the power and almost all the mechanisms of economic coercion are below the surface, in the very infrastructure that undergirds international commerce. . . . Underground Empire should rightly stimulate much discussion”

September 30, 2018

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Steven Berlin Johnson – “history written in its most powerful form: a view of the recent past that gives us a new lens to better discern our future.”

September 30, 2018

Francis Spufford – “The sharpest and most striking analysis I’ve seen in years of the state the world’s in, cunningly disguised as a user-friendly business book.”

September 30, 2018

Margaret O’Mara, author of The Code – “An eye-opening journey into the hidden networks that power the high-tech world.”

September 30, 2018

Chris Miller, author of Chip War – “an astonishing explanation of how power really works.”

September 30, 2018

Kim Stanley Robinson – “a new and startling image of the global body politic”

September 30, 2018