• Introduction: A bit like love
• Arrival: 1969-1971. Prometheus in the Pentagon (Bob Taylor) ; Nerd paradise (Al Alcorn) ; Eight quarters in her pocket (Fawn Alvarez) ; The Fairchildren (Mike Markkula) ; What do we do with these? (Niels Reimers) ; Come with me, or I'll go by myself (Sandra Kurtzig)
• Building: 1972-1975. Have you seen this woman? (Sandra Kurtzig) ; Turn your backs on the origins of computing! (Bob Taylor) ; Hit in the ass by lightning (Al Alcorn) ; Make it happen (Niels Reimers) ; That's what I did on Mondays (Mike Markkula)
• Challenges: 1976-1977. I needed to land behind a desk (Fawn Alvarez) ; This is a big fucking deal (Al Alcorn) ; One more year or bust (Sandra Kurtzig) ; No idea how you start a company (Niels Reimers and Bob Swanson) ; That flips my switch (Mike Markkula) ; I've never seen a man type that fast (Bob Taylor) ; There are no standards yet (Mike Markkula)
• Triumph: 1979-1981. Looks like $100 million to me! (Niels Reimers and Bob Swanson) ; Sitting in a kiddie seat (Al Alcorn) ; Can you imagine your grandmother using one? (Bob Taylor) ; Young maniacs (Mike Markkula) ; What in the hell are you trying to say? (Fawn Alvarez) ; We don't need any money (Sandra Kurtzig)
• Transition: 1983-1984. The rabbits hopped away (Bob Taylor) ; Video nation (Al Alcorn) ; Knew it before they did (Niels Reimers) ; No one thought they would sell (Fawn Alvarez) ; The entire world will never be the same (Mike Markkula) ; She works hard for the money (Sandra Kurtzig)
• Conclusion: Wave after wave
• Postscript: The troublemakers today.

A narrative history of the Silicon Valley generation that launched five major high-tech industries in seven years details the specific contributions of seven technical pioneers and how they established the foundation for today's tech-driven world.
"At a time when the five most valuable companies on the planet are high-tech firms and nearly half of Americans say they cannot live without their cell phones, Troublemakers reveals the untold story of how we got here. This is the gripping tale of seven exceptional men and women, pioneers of Silicon Valley in the 1970s and early 1980s. Together, they worked across generations, industries, and companies to bring technology from Pentagon offices and university laboratories to the rest of us. In doing so, they changed the world. In Troublemakers, historian Leslie Berlin introduces the people and stories behind the birth of the Internet and the microprocessor, as well as Apple, Atari, Genentech, Xerox PARC, ROLM, ASK, and the iconic venture capital firms Sequoia Capital and Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers. In the space of only seven years and thirty-five miles, five major industries--personal computing, video games, biotechnology, modern venture capital, and advanced semiconductor logic--were born. Featured among innovators such as Steve Jobs, Larry Ellison, and Don Valentine are Mike Markkula, Apple Computer's first chairman; Bob Taylor, who kick-started the Arpanet and masterminded the personal computer; Sandra Kurtzig, the first woman to take a technology company public; Al Alcorn, the engineer behind the first wildly successful video game; Fawn Alvarez, who rose from an assembler on a factory line to the executive suite; and Niels Reimers, who changed how university innovations reach the public. These troublemakers rewrote the rules and invented the future."--Dust jacket flap.

• The King of Broadway
• The merchant of Houndsditch
• The insider
• Rascality of all descriptions
• It can't be done
• The carnivorous snail
• The royal crown
• The hidden map
• The knight in the mote
• The deal of the century
• The rivals
• The echo of applause
• Reversals of fortune
• The black city in red
• The warhorse and the stallion
• The "fateful plunge"
• The Colossus falls
• "We must take America"
• Wealth beyond measure
• Legacies
• The enduring puzzle.

"The author of the popular History of Oil podcast traces the early-20th-century rivalry between John D. Rockefeller's Standard Oil and Royal Dutch Shell, describing the origins of partners Marcus Samuel, Jr. and Henri Deterding and how they used respective talents to break Rockefeller's daunting monopoly"-- NoveList.
At the height of the great oil boom of the 1870s-1880s, John D. Rockefeller was seemingly unstoppable. Capitalizing on the newly emerging industry that was changing the lives of people worldwide, Rockefeller eliminated his rivals to achieve near-total domination of the market. By 1889, he was at the peak of his power, having created one of the largest monopolies in history, so powerful that even the U.S. government was wary of challenging the great "anaconda" of Standard Oil. The Standard never loses--that is, until the unlikely duo of Marcus Samuel and Henri Deterding teamed up to form Royal Dutch Shell, and set the stage for the toppling of Standard Oil. This account of ambition, oil, and greed traces Samuel's rise from canny outsider to the heights of the British aristocracy, Deterding's conquest of America, and the collapse of Rockefeller's oil empire. Taking readers through the rough and tumble of East London's streets and the twilight turmoil of tsarist Russia to the halls of the British Parliament and right down New York's Broadway, international affairs expert Peter Doran offers a fresh perspective on how Samuel and Deterding beat the world's richest man at his own game.--Adapted from dust jacket.

• part one. We were ambassadors with bulldozers, 1872-1972: Go west! ; Follow the water ; Hobo jungle ; That hellhole ; Wartime socialists ; Patriot capitalists ; The largest American colony ; Going nuclear ; McConey island ; Weaving spiders ; Covert corporate collaboration ; The energy-industrial complex
• part two. The Bechtel cabinet 1973-1988: Bechtel's superstar ; Cap the knife ; The Arab boycott ; The Pacific republic ; The Bechtel babies ; The Reaganauts ; A world awash in plutonium ; It would be a terrible mess ; Ultimate insiders ; A witch's brew ; The territory of lies ; A tangled scheme
• part three. Dividing the spoils, 1989-2008: A deal with the devil ; The giant land of Bechtel ; Some found the company arrogant ; Global reach with a local touch ; A license to make money ; More powerful than the US Army ; The hydra-headed American giant ; Profiting from destruction
• part four. From muleskinner to sovereign state, 2009-2015: A convenient spy ; Privatize the apocalypse ; Nukes for profit ; The Buddhist and the bomb ; The four horsemen of the apocalypse ; The Captain Ahab of nuclear weapons ; A trial lawyer goes to battle ; The Exxon of space ; A nasty piece of work ; The kingdom of Bechtelistan.

The tale of the Bechtel family dynasty is a classic American business story. It begins with Warren A. 'Dad' Bechtel, who led a consortium that constructed the Hoover Dam. From that auspicious start, the family and its eponymous company would go on to 'build the world,' from the construction of airports in Hong Kong and Doha, to pipelines and tunnels in Alaska and Europe, to mining and energy operations around the globe. Today Bechtel is one of the largest privately held corporations in the world, enriched and empowered by a long history of government contracts and the privatization of public works, made possible by an unprecedented revolving door between its San Francisco headquarters and Washington.

• A winding path
• Getting America online
• The Third Wave
• Start up, speed up
• The three P's
• Pardon the disruption
• The rise of the rest
• Impact investing
• A matter of trust
• The visible hand
• American disrupted
• Ride the wave.

Steve Case, co-founder of America Online (AOL) and one of America's most accomplished entrepreneurs, shares a roadmap for how anyone can succeed in a world of rapidly changing technology. We are entering, he explains, a new paradigm called the "Third Wave" of the Internet. The first wave saw AOL and other companies lay the foundation for consumers to connect to the Internet. The second wave saw companies like Google and Facebook build on top of the Internet to create search and social networking capabilities, while apps like Snapchat and Instagram leverage the smartphone revolution. Now, Case argues, we're entering the Third Wave: a period in which entrepreneurs will vastly transform major "real world" sectors like health, education, transportation, energy, and food-and in the process change the way we live our daily lives.

Hour-long spoken history of Mirambo, a powerful 19th-century Tanzanian chief.

• [Disc 1]. Interview with Johnnie [Bearcub] (12:28)
• December 31, Interview with Bernell Blindman (14 min.)
• January 5, 1970, Interviews with Douglass Remington and Linda Chango (14:13)
• [Disc 2]. Program extract substitution from 12/23/69 : January 7, 1970 Al Silbowitz interviews John Adar (14:19)
• January 14, Trudell reports on the plans to found an Indian University (12:36)
• [Disc 3]. January 15, Trudell discusses Indian schools (14:02)
• January 19, Interview with La Nada Means (14:45)
• [Disc 4]. January 20, Trudell is interviewed by Johnny Yesno of Canadian Broadcasting on general situation at Alcatraz (15:16)
• January 21, Trudell reads from Indian newspapers (15:20)
• [Disc 5]. January 22, Interview with John White Fox (15:00)
• January 23, Trudell discusses L.A. Hoffman (13:45)
• [Disc 6]. January 26, Trudell discusses Cheyenne autumn (a film) (15:25)
• February 9, Trudell reads from Indian periodicals and discusses the Alcatraz newpaper (14:45)
• [Disc 7]. February 11, Trudell reads varous items (16:39)
• February 12, Trudell reads various items (10:57)
• [Disc 8]. February 13, Trudell reads various items (11:57)
• January 18, Trudell reads a piece on Indian traditions (14:18)
• [Disc 9]. February 20, Trudell discusses upcoming negotiations with the government and reads an editorial from the next issue of the island's newspaper (13:56)
• April 7, Elsa Knight Thompson interviews Trudell about negotiations with the government (12:38)
• [Disc 10]. April 9, Trudell interviews Charles Dana about ongoing negotiations with government (15:45)
• April 30, Richard Walden and Charles Dana speak about the Bay Area Native American Council (16:14)
• [Disc 11]. May 7, Trudell, Dana, and Walden discuss situation (17:54)
• May 14, Trudell and Walden discuss negotiations and also church issues (15:25)
• [Disc 12]. May 21, Trudell discusses plans for upcoming reclamation on May 31, and also muses on his R & R trip to the mountains (11:45)
• May 28, Trudell and Walden report on degeneration of relations between Alcatraz and the government (16:55)
• [Disc 13]. May 31, [Program contains sensitive language] various speakers discuss situation of Indians (32:05)
• [Disc 14]. June 2, Claude Marks of KPFA reports on fires sighted on the island and the Coast Guard's official response (10:17)
• June 2, Marks interviews Trudell about the fires (6:58)
• June 4, Trudell appeals for medical supplies and vitamins (0:41)
• [Disc 15]. June 10, Trudell discusses the fires and the lighthouse and Indian plans for a sustainable community (14:46)
• July 9, Trudell gives general update
• [Disc 16]. July 16, Trudell gives update (6:32)
• July 23, Trudell reports birth of his son, and general update (14:33)
• July 30, Trudell gives general report (13:13)
• [Disc 17]. August 6, Trudell discusses power for the lighthouse and other issues (11:52)
• August 13, Trudell reports on ongoing disagreements with General Services Administration (13:24).

Broadcast by KPFA (and KPFK and WBAI) from December 22, 1969 to September 3, 1970 (of which the Archives holds 40 reels from December 29, 1969 to August 13, 1970), live from the main cell block of Alcatraz prison, during the Indians of All Tribes occupation. Consists chiefly of interviews, discussions, and news. Each episode introduced by Buffy Sainte-Marie singing Now that the buffalo's gone.

• Why is it so hard to get rich?
• Wealth secrets of the ancient Romans
• Wealth secrets of the robber barons
• Wealth secrets of today's one percent
• Wealth secrets of the Forbes global rich list
• Dot.com wealth secrets
• Seven secrets of spectacularly rich people.

"Discover how the superwealthy made it to the top (and you can too!) From the richest Romans to the robber barons to today's bankers and tech billionaires, Sam Wilkin offers Freakonomics-esque insights into what it really takes to make a fortune. These stories of larger-than-life characters, strategies, and sacrifices reveal how the wealthiest did it, usually by a passion for finding loopholes, working around bureaucratic systems, and creating obstacles to competitors. Wealth secrets of the one percent gets at the heart of our feelings about the 1% of top income earners and the roughly 0.0001% who achieve billionaire status: we love to hate them, but we'd love to be them. Wilkin's insight into the sources of wealth is thought-provoking and rigorous, and he reveals that behind almost every great fortune is a "wealth secret"--a moneymaking technique designed to defeat the forces of market competition" -- provided by publisher.

• 1. The birth of Renaissance in Italy
• 2. The Renaissance spreads throughout Europe
• 3. The Reformation
• 4. The age of exploration
• 5. Publishing a news magazine on change in Europe.

• 1. A thousand years of dynastic rule in China
• 2. Flowering of Chinese culture
• 3. Development of feudalism in Japan
• 4. Culture in the land of the rising sun
• 5. Comparing imperial China and feudal Japan.

• 1. Overview of the Middle East
• 2. State formation in the Middle East
• 3. Case study of the Arab-Israeli conflict
• 4. Creating a visual metaphor on the modern Middle East.

• Columbus / Joaquin Miller
• The American flag / Joseph Rodman Drake
• Landing of the Pilgrim Fathers / Felicia Hemans
• Barbara Frietchie / John Greenleaf Whittier
• Paul Revere's ride / Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
• Warren's address to the American soldiers / John Pierpont
• Concord hymn / by Ralph Waldo Emerson
• Hail Columbia / Joseph Hopkinson
• America / Samuel Francis Smith
• Sheridan's ride / Thomas Buchanan Read
• The star-spangled banner / Francis Scott Key
• Old Ironsides / Oliver Wendell Holmes
• Nancy Hanks / Rosemary Benét
• Lincoln, the man of the people / Edwin Markham
• O captain! my captain! / Walt Whitman
• Abraham Lincoln walks at midnight / Vachel Lindsay.