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Strings Cross paints an honest, seldom seen tapestry of American history - from its orange ranch settlements in Southern California through its deceptions over how the personal computer came about and the path one of Microsofts co-founders took to become the richest man in the world. What was life really like for those who reached adulthood during WW II, only to immediately inherit the Cold War that followed - men and women whose country, America, would come to call them The Greatest Generation? Who in that Greatest Generation were politically too liberal, a threat, Communists? Answers to these questions weave seamlessly with portrayals of life in modern its computer pioneers, sexual-revolution upheavals, and later wars. Strings Cross is a bold, satirical and beautifully written account of an ordinary American, Everyman, a man buffeted by history, moods, and beliefs. The grandson of immigrants from Europes east and west whose fathers kin settle in a New York ghetto, his mothers among the first to help turn an arid California desert - ten hours by horse due west of Los Angeles - into a lush forest of orange trees. When his grandfathers illness shifts the tale from that ranching para

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Author

Guri P. Essen

Publisher

Heron Drive Press

Published

2015

Language

EN

ISBN

9780692420867

Category

history

Subjects

History, Humanities

Rating

3.86 / 5 (4 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14