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Showcasing this new class of super geeks, former New York Times technology reporter Noam Cohen sketches \"finely researched portraits\" (Nature) of the smart guys, including Jeff Bezos, Peter Thiel, Sergey Brin, Larry Page, and Mark Zuckerberg, who fell in love with a radically individualistic, anti-government ideal--and then mainstreamed it.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eNow, in this completely revised and updated edition, published one year after DOGE came to town, Cohen shows how the know-it-alls came to Washington, providing a richly documented account of how their influence has metastasized, their wealth has exploded, and their technologies have frayed America's social and political fabric. 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