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Angels in the Silicon: How Silicon Valley Changed Forever America's Sociopolitical and Global Technology Paradigms
Meet Thaddeus Sikorski, a herculean third-generation American, courageous, persevering, and surprisingly steadfast father of this tragic odyssey to love and protect his angel children. After losing his first love, 18-year-old Thad enlist, and goes on to become a Vietnam War combatant, a San Francisco progressive street revolutionary, a graduate business student, an Internet-related technology visionary, husband, and a global business leader. In between entrepreneurial misadventures, he manages to save the life of an American President, struggles with a psychopathy attorney and murderer, discovers the truth about Silicon Valley's justice system, experiences the economic hollowing out brought on by the outsourcing of Silicon Valley technologies, and survives the emotions of remaining true to his love for his children. This extraordinary journey travels through three decades of the American technology and cultural landscape. Author Richard Kusiolek paid much attention to the details of everyday life of an entrepreneur in Silicon Valley. Angels in the Silicon encapsulates the experience of living in Silicon Valley for three decades of rapid technology progress, economic change, and a politically correct progressive judiciary. The novel, "Angels in the Silicon," has a powerful American story to tell. You will learn the naked truth of living in Northern California's Silicon Valley.
360 pages, Paperback
First published December 14, 2012
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Richard Theodor Kusiolek
4 books4 followersSilicon Valley Visionary -High Technology City/Digital Battlefields/PowerCom Parks/Space Tourism
Press Correspondent - Satellite Platforms and Business Applications
Adjunct Professor - Graduate Business Schools and Faculty University of Phoenix
Member Board of Directors - Equitech - Renewable Energy Development
Press Correspondent - Satellite Platforms and Business Applications
Adjunct Professor - Graduate Business Schools and Faculty University of Phoenix
Member Board of Directors - Equitech - Renewable Energy Development
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August 13, 2013So, with this concern in mind I took a look at “Angels in the Silicon,” and found it to be a much more open and honest appraisal of the true nature of Silicon Valley and its opportunities as well as the many problems.David Welch: Stop the Insanity Target 2014
ANGELS IN THE SILICON REVIEW
This creative non-fiction book was for me a great introduction to the effects of global capitalism on the dynamic region that is the San Francisco Bay Area. It is obviously written by someone with deep knowledge of the business practices which have shaped the area into what it is today. What interests me most, however, is the multicultural aspects in the book, from the main protagonist’s background as an Eastern European, to the chasing of the American dream, afforded and provided by opportunities in the Silicon Valley. Things are not so simple, of course.
What the book does well is offer a perspective of the globalized effects that fracture the American dream in terms of both business and law practices sweeping the region (and the U.S. at large). For someone who is a new transplant to the area under question, it was truly fascinating to get this well-documented historical perspective. What is more, and this is where the true literary merit of the book comes from, is that this larger economic element is reflected in the fracturing of the American family itself, issues with which Thaddeus Sikorski, the protagonist of the novel, struggles. To this, we get access to a perspective on the laws shaping divorce in America, the repercussions of which causes emotional turmoil for Thaddeus Sikorski and his “Angels”.
These more personal, emotional stakes are what truly grab the reader, in my opinion. They provide a much-needed grounding of the broader themes explored in the novel, making them palatable and engaging to a casual reader. We are taken through the pursuit of the American dream, the establishment of the American family, and a smattering of suspense and intrigue. Pick this up if you want to know more about the San Francisco Bay Area, as well as the forces that shape modern business practices in all their dream-fulfilling and dream-shattering capacities.
Nikita Allgire
M.A. Graduate Student in Comparative Literature,Russian and English
Department of Comparative and World Literature
San Francisco State University
phone: (812) 361-5865
e-mail: allgiren@gmail.com
ANGELS IN THE SILICON REVIEW
This creative non-fiction book was for me a great introduction to the effects of global capitalism on the dynamic region that is the San Francisco Bay Area. It is obviously written by someone with deep knowledge of the business practices which have shaped the area into what it is today. What interests me most, however, is the multicultural aspects in the book, from the main protagonist’s background as an Eastern European, to the chasing of the American dream, afforded and provided by opportunities in the Silicon Valley. Things are not so simple, of course.
What the book does well is offer a perspective of the globalized effects that fracture the American dream in terms of both business and law practices sweeping the region (and the U.S. at large). For someone who is a new transplant to the area under question, it was truly fascinating to get this well-documented historical perspective. What is more, and this is where the true literary merit of the book comes from, is that this larger economic element is reflected in the fracturing of the American family itself, issues with which Thaddeus Sikorski, the protagonist of the novel, struggles. To this, we get access to a perspective on the laws shaping divorce in America, the repercussions of which causes emotional turmoil for Thaddeus Sikorski and his “Angels”.
These more personal, emotional stakes are what truly grab the reader, in my opinion. They provide a much-needed grounding of the broader themes explored in the novel, making them palatable and engaging to a casual reader. We are taken through the pursuit of the American dream, the establishment of the American family, and a smattering of suspense and intrigue. Pick this up if you want to know more about the San Francisco Bay Area, as well as the forces that shape modern business practices in all their dream-fulfilling and dream-shattering capacities.
Nikita Allgire
M.A. Graduate Student in Comparative Literature,Russian and English
Department of Comparative and World Literature
San Francisco State University
phone: (812) 361-5865
e-mail: allgiren@gmail.com
August 12, 2013
This creative non-fiction book was for me a great introduction to the effects of global capitalism on the dynamic region that is the San Francisco Bay Area. It is obviously written by someone with deep knowledge of the business practices which have shaped the area into what it is today. What interests me most, however, is the multicultural aspects in the book, from the main protagonist’s background as an Eastern European, to the chasing of the American dream, afforded and provided by opportunities in the Silicon Valley. Things are not so simple, of course.
What the book does well is offer a perspective of the globalized effects that fracture the American dream in terms of both business and law practices sweeping the region (and the U.S. at large). For someone who is a new transplant to the area under question, it was truly fascinating to get this well-documented historical perspective. What is more, and this is where the true literary merit of the brook comes from, is that this larger economic element is reflected in the fracturing of the American family itself, issues with which Thaddeus Sikorski, the protagonist of the novel, struggles. To this, we get access to a perspective on the laws shaping divorce in America, the repercussions of which causes emotional turmoil for Thaddeus Sikorski and his “Angels”.
These more personal, emotional stakes are what truly grab the reader, in my opinion. They provide a much-needed grounding of the broader themes explored in the novel, making them palatable and engaging to a casual reader. We are taken through the pursuit of the American dream, the establishment of the American family, suspense and intrigue. Pick this up if you want to know more about the San Francisco Bay Area, as well as the forces that shape modern business practices in all their dream-fulfilling and dream-shattering capacities.
What the book does well is offer a perspective of the globalized effects that fracture the American dream in terms of both business and law practices sweeping the region (and the U.S. at large). For someone who is a new transplant to the area under question, it was truly fascinating to get this well-documented historical perspective. What is more, and this is where the true literary merit of the brook comes from, is that this larger economic element is reflected in the fracturing of the American family itself, issues with which Thaddeus Sikorski, the protagonist of the novel, struggles. To this, we get access to a perspective on the laws shaping divorce in America, the repercussions of which causes emotional turmoil for Thaddeus Sikorski and his “Angels”.
These more personal, emotional stakes are what truly grab the reader, in my opinion. They provide a much-needed grounding of the broader themes explored in the novel, making them palatable and engaging to a casual reader. We are taken through the pursuit of the American dream, the establishment of the American family, suspense and intrigue. Pick this up if you want to know more about the San Francisco Bay Area, as well as the forces that shape modern business practices in all their dream-fulfilling and dream-shattering capacities.
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