Steven Levy - "Facebook: The Inside Story"

Renowned tech writer STEVEN LEVY DELIVERS THE DEFINITIVE HISTORY OF ONE OF AMERICA’s most powerful and controversial companies: FACEBOOK. STEVEN LEVY HAS HAD UNPRECEDENTED ACCESS TO MARK ZUCKERBERG AND SHERYL SANDBERG FOR THREE YEARS. BASED ON HUNDREDS OF INTERVIEWS INSIDE AND OUTSIDE THE COMPANY, LEVY’S SWEEPING NARRATIVE DIGS DEEP INTO THE WHOLE STORY OF THE COMPANY THAT HAS CHANGED THE WORLD AND REAPED THE CONSEQUENCES. There is no denying the power and omnipresence of Facebook in American daily life. And in light of recent controversies surrounding election-influencing “fake news” accounts, the handling of its users’ personal data, and growing discontent with the actions of its founder and CEO, never has the company been more central to the national conversation. STEVEN LEVY is _Wired_'s editor at large. _The Washington Post_ has called him "America's premier technology journalist." His previous positions include the founder of _Backchannel_ and chief technology writer and senior editor for _Newsweek_. Levy has written seven previous books and has written for _Rolling Stone_, _Harper's Magazine_, _Macworld_, _The New York Times Magazine_, _Esquire_, _The New Yorker_, and _Premiere_. Levy has also won several awards during his thirty-plus years of writing about technology, including for his book _Hackers_, which _PC Magazine_ named the best sci-tech book written in the last twenty years; and for _Crypto_, which won the grand e-book prize at the 2001 Frankfurt Book Fair. Oblong Books & Music in RHINEBECK is a fully wheelchair accessible space with on-site van accessible parking. Microphones and speakers will not be used at this event but can be made available with advance notice. If you have specific questions about the space or how an event can be made more accessible to you, please do not hesitate to contact US: info@oblongbooks.com [http://oblongbooks.com]. PRE-ORDER THE BOOK [https://www.oblongbooks.com/book/9780735213159]