Alexandra Wolfe
Alexandra Wolfe is a staff reporter for The Wall Street Journal and writes the weekly column “Weekend Confidential.” After graduating from Duke University, she worked as a staff reporter for the New York Observer, The Wall Street Journal, and then Condé Nast Portfolio. As a freelancer, she wrote regular columns for Bloomberg Businessweek, features for Travel + Leisure and Departures, and has written cover stories for Vanity Fair and Town & Country. The Valley of the Gods is her first book. She lives in New York City.
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The Valley of the Gods
- By: Alexandra Wolfe
- Narrator: Arden Hammersmith
- Length: 6 hours 16 minutes
- Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio
- Publish date: January 01, 2017
- Language: English
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Reporter Alexandra Wolfe’s biting but admiring story of Silicon Valley, and the men and women whose hubris and ambition are changing the world.Each year, young people from around the world go to Silicon Valley to hatch an idea, start a... Read more
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