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Geoffrey Cain

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Santa Monica, The United States

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Nonfiction, Business, Biography

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Geoffrey Cain is an award-winning author and foreign correspondent who sits down with world leaders, tech founders, and dissidents at pivotal moments in history—intimate conversations that grew into his acclaimed books Samsung Rising and The Perfect Police State.

Samsung Rising was longlisted for the Financial Times and McKinsey Business Book of the Year, while The Perfect Police State was named NPR’s Book of the Day and received a citation for the Cornelius Ryan Award from the Overseas Press Club.

His books have been called “gripping” (Financial Times), a “thriller” (The Wall Street Journal), “riveting” (The Economist and Forbes), “a crisp narrative” (Publishers Weekly), and “a prescient, alarming work” (Kirkus starred review). He is a regul ...more

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	Samsung Rising: The Inside Story of the South Korean Giant That Set Out to Beat Apple and Conquer Tech 3.65 avg rating — 1,638 ratings — published 2020 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Perfect Police State: An Undercover Odyssey into China's Terrifying Surveillance Dystopia of the Future 4.22 avg rating — 1,086 ratings — published 2021 — 15 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Steve Jobs in Exile: The Untold Story of NeXT and the Remaking of an American Visionary 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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A Death in the Lucky Holiday Hotel: Murder, Money, and an Epic Power Struggle in China

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“engineer, along with a hundred others, began his hike that night near Samsung’s Everland theme park, traversing the mountains around Yongin—a distance of sixty-four kilometers (about forty miles)—through the day and overnight. The hike was designed to test the team’s mental toughness as they prepared to race forward making a 64K DRAM chipset, an early semiconductor used in calculators.”
― Geoffrey Cain, Samsung Rising: The Inside Story of the South Korean Giant That Set Out to Beat Apple and Conquer Tech

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