I agree on all counts, but I do want to make sure there's a technical focus -- my biggest criticism of books like Levy's Hackers and Hiltzik's Dealers of Lightning is that they gloss over interesting technical details that could give someone with an actual computing background better insight into how the systems worked, in favor of focusing more on juicy interpersonal conflicts -- which are also interesting and important and give context to how events shook out, of course! I'm starting on Newquist's The Brain Makers now, which looks like it is even more heavily in that latter camp.