He now turns his scrutiny to his hometown, Palo Alto, and Silicon Valley for an exhuming of its phases of capitalistic greed and exploration of what can be done to prevent the next mutation. Harris, an unabashed Marxist, has explored millennial ennui and oppressive systems of capitalism in his work with Occupy Wall Street and 'Kids These Days,' his first book. They owe their success to capitalism, and capitalism owes its success to those who embrace the system. Giannini or Leland Stanford or Jeff Bezos or Elon Musk. In his new book 'Palo Alto: A History of California, Capitalism, and the World' (Little, Brown and Company, 720 pages, $36), journalist Malcolm Harris argues that no supposed California genius is ever as capable and gifted as history would lead us to believe-not Bill Gates or Mark Zuckerberg or A.P. In the Bay Area, schools, street names, universities and public art bear the names of historical figures who shaped the Golden State into the capitalistic Eden it remains to this day.

People know California for its ripe agricultural land, its legacy of gold, ongoing waves of migration, earthquakes, beacons of arts in the south and tech in the north, drought, and wildfires.

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