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The mission of the Foundation for American Innovation is to develop technology, talent, and ideas that support a better, freer, and more abundant future. Ours is a politics of builders, hackers, and founders working to advance a more perfect union between technology and the American republic.

 

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Subprime Attention Crisis: Advertising and the Time Bomb at the Heart of the Internet
Chaos Monkeys: Obscene Fortune and Random Failure in Silicon Valley
On Parliamentary War: Partisan Conflict and Procedural Change in the U.S. Senate (With a New Preface)
A Mind at Play: How Claude Shannon Invented the Information Age
FairPay: Adaptively Win-Win Customer Relationships
The Death of Deliberation: Gridlock and the Politics of Effort in the United States Senate
Rome's Last Citizen: The Life and Legacy of Cato, Mortal Enemy of Caesar
The Soul of a New Machine
Skunk Works: A Personal Memoir of My Years of Lockheed
Facebook: The Inside Story
Samsung Rising: The Inside Story of the South Korean Giant That Set Out to Beat Apple and Conquer Tech
Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future
Dealers of Lightning: Xerox Parc and the Dawn of the Computer Age
The Innovators: How a Group of Hackers, Geniuses, and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution
Talent: How to Identify Energizers, Creatives, and Winners Around the World
The Huawei Model: The Rise of China's Technology Giant
VC: An American History
The Power Law: Venture Capital and the Making of the New Future
Hatching Twitter: A True Story of Money, Power, Friendship, and Betrayal
The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon
In the Plex: How Google Thinks, Works, and Shapes Our Lives
Super Pumped: The Battle for Uber
Capitalism Without Capital: The Rise of the Intangible Economy
Making Silicon Valley: Innovation and the Growth of High Tech, 1930-1970
For Profit: A History of Corporations
The Visible Hand: The Managerial Revolution in American Business (Revised)
The Rise and Fall of American Growth: The U.S. Standard of Living Since the Civil War
The Technology Trap: Capital, Labor, and Power in the Age of Automation
How the World Became Rich: The Historical Origins of Economic Growth
The Decadent Society: America Before and After the Pandemic
Chip War: The Fight for the World's Most Critical Technology
Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future
From Third World to First: Singapore and the Asian Economic Boom
The Park Chung Hee Era: The Transformation of South Korea
The Shenzhen Experiment: The Story of China's Instant City
Miti and the Japanese Miracle: The Growth of Industrial Policy, 1925-1975
The Role of the State in Taiwan's Development
Reweaving the Web
Who Controls the Internet?: Illusions of a Borderless World
The Rise of the Network Society
What the Dormouse Said: How the Sixties Counterculture Shaped the Personal Computer Industry
From Counterculture to Cyberculture: Stewart Brand, the Whole Earth Network, and the Rise of Digital Utopianism
The Internet Is Not What You Think It Is: A History, a Philosophy, a Warning
Interop: The Promise and Perils of Highly Interconnected Systems
The Twenty-Six Words That Created the Internet
The Future of the Internet--And How to Stop It
The Perfect Police State: An Undercover Odyssey Into China's Terrifying Surveillance Dystopia of the Future
Intellectual Privilege: Copyright, Common Law, and the Common Good
Cult of the Dead Cow: How the Original Hacking Supergroup Might Just Save the World
Where Wizards Stay Up Late: The Origins of the Internet
How Music Got Free: A Story of Obsession and Invention
Cyber Rights: Defending Free Speech in the Digital Age
American Genesis: A Century of Invention and Technological Enthusiasm, 1870-1970
The Man from the Future: The Visionary Ideas of John Von Neumann
Rise of the Machines: A Cybernetic History
Cybernetics, Second Edition: or Control and Communication in the Animal and the Machine
The the Science of Science Policy: A Handbook
Endless Frontier: Vannevar Bush, Engineer of the American Century
The Physicists: The History of a Scientific Community in Modern America, with a New Preface by the Author (Revised)
Manhattan Project: The Story of the Century (2020)
John F. Kennedy and the Race to the Moon (2010)
Von Braun: Dreamer of Space, Engineer of War
Jump-Starting America: How Breakthrough Science Can Revive Economic Growth and the American Dream
The Origins of Victory: How Disruptive Military Innovation Determines the Fates of Great Powers
Military Organizations, Complex Machines
The Future of War: A History
Engineers of Victory: The Problem Solvers Who Turned the Tide in the Second World War
Underground Empire: How America Weaponized the World Economy
The Culture of Military Innovation: The Impact of Cultural Factors on the Revolution in Military Affairs in Russia, the US, and Israel
Freedom's Forge: How American Business Produced Victory in World War II
Cyber Persistence Theory: Redefining National Security in Cyberspace
No Shortcuts: Why States Struggle to Develop a Military Cyber-Force
Tiger Check: Automating the US Air Force Fighter Pilot in Air-To-Air Combat, 1950-1980
Relentless Strike: The Secret History of Joint Special Operations Command
The Kill Chain: Defending America in the Future of High-Tech Warfare
The Last Warrior: Andrew Marshall and the Shaping of Modern American Defense Strategy
Political Risk: How Businesses and Organizations Can Anticipate Global Insecurity
Bureaucracy: What Government Agencies Do and Why They Do It
Run of the Red Queen: Government, Innovation, Globalization, and Economic Growth in China
Pieces of the Action
A Time to Build: From Family and Community to Congress and the Campus, How Recommitting to Our Institutions Can Revive the American Dream
Science and Technology Advice for Congress
The China Model: Political Meritocracy and the Limits of Democracy (Revised)
The Historical Roots of Corruption
Congress's Own Think Tank: Learning from the Legacy of the Office of Technology Assessment (1972-1995) (2013)
Your Next Government?
Radical Markets: Uprooting Capitalism and Democracy for a Just Society
Kennan: A Life Between Worlds
The Best and the Brightest
Autobiographical Reflections (Cw34): Revised Edition, with a Voegelin Glossary and Cumulative Index Volume 34 (Second Edition, with a Voegelin Glossar
The Peacemaker: Ronald Reagan, the Cold War, and the World on the Brink
What Lincoln Believed: The Values and Convictions of America's Greatest President
Reagan, in His Own Hand: The Writings of Ronald Reagan That Reveal His Revolutionary Vision for America (Revised)
Lincoln
The Field of Blood: Violence in Congress and the Road to Civil War
Adenauer: The Father of the New Germany
Alexander Hamilton
American Caesar: Douglas MacArthur 1880 - 1964
The World of the John Birch Society: Conspiracy, Conservatism, and the Cold War
Kissinger: A Biography (Reissue)
Margaret Thatcher: The Authorized Biography: From Grantham to the Falklands
The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York
Ethics for Capitalists: A Systematic Approach to Business Ethics, Competition, and Market Failure
How Institutions Think
The Technological Society
Security, Territory, Population: Lectures at the Collège de France 1977--1978
Liquid Modernity
The Managerial Revolution: What is Happening in the World
Laws of Media: The New Science (Revised)
Knowledge and Power: The Information Theory of Capitalism
The Ancient City - Imperium Press
Gravity's Rainbow (Classics Deluxe Edition): (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition) (Penguin Classics Deluxe)
The Passions and the Interests: Political Arguments for Capitalism Before Its Triumph (Revised)
The Concept of the Political (Enlarged)
Private Truths, Public Lies: The Social Consequences of Preference Falsification (Revised)
René Girard's Mimetic Theory
The Constitution of Liberty: The Definitive Edition Volume 17
How to Write a Thesis
The Speechwriter
Persecution and the Art of Writing (Univ of Chicago PR)
Working
On Writing Well: The Classic Guide to Writing Nonfiction (Anniversary)
Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World
Stylish Academic Writing
The Elements of Style
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