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I Index Overall Rating

Readers

56/100

Critics

4/100

Scholars

95/100

Author:

Steven Levy

Publisher:

Blue Rider Press

Date:

February 25, 2020

He has had access to Mark Zuckerberg and Sheryl Sandberg for three years. And now renowned tech writer Steven Levy delivers the definitive history of one of America’s most powerful and controversial companies: Facebook.

What The Reviewers Say

Shannon Bond,
NPR
... exhaustive and well-paced.
Natasha Singer,
The New York Times Book Review
It is a largely sympathetic, and occasionally fawning, portrait of Facebook that seems at odds with the company’s recent emergence as an avatar for the risks of unchecked corporate power.
Stephen Phillips,
The San Francisco Chronicle
... reflects the reputational swan-dive of its subject. Levy is the dean of tech writers; Facebook’s brass gave him the run of the C-suite. The result is evenhanded and devastating.
Christina Passariello,
The Washington Post
... infuse[d] with urgency and tension.