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Walter Isaacson’s “enthralling” (The New Yorker) worldwide bestselling biography of Apple cofounder Steve Jobs.

Based on more than forty interviews with Steve Jobs conducted over two years—as well as interviews with more than 100 family members, friends, adversaries, competitors, and colleagues—Walter Isaacson has written a riveting story of the roller-coaster life and searingly intense personality of a creative entrepreneur whose passion for perfection and ferocious drive revolutionized six industries: personal computers, animated movies, music, phones, tablet computing, and digital publishing.

At a time when America is seeking ways to sustain its innovative edge, Jobs stands as the ultimate icon of inventiveness and applied imagination. He knew that the best way to create value in 21st century was to connect creativity with technology. He built a company where leaps of the imagination were combined with remarkable feats of engineering.

Although Jobs cooperated with the author, he asked for no control over what was written. He put nothing off-limits. He encouraged the people he knew to speak honestly. And Jobs speaks candidly, sometimes brutally so, about the people he worked with and competed against. His friends, foes, and colleagues provide an unvarnished view of the passions, perfectionism, obsessions, artistry, devilry, and compulsion for control that shaped his approach to business and the innovative products that resulted.

Driven by demons, Jobs could drive those around him to fury and despair. But his personality and products were interrelated, just as Apple’s hardware and software tended to be, as if part of an integrated system. His tale is instructive and cautionary, filled with lessons about innovation, character, leadership, and values.

Steve Jobs is the inspiration for the movie of the same name starring Michael Fassbender, Kate Winslet, Seth Rogen, and Jeff Daniels, directed by Danny Boyle with a screenplay by Aaron Sorkin.

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Read about some of the most influential people in history from Walter Isaacson!	“A short, smart analysis of perhaps the most famous passage in American history reveals its potency and unfulfilled promise.” —Kirkus Reviews	From the #1 NYT and global bestseller from Walter Isaacson is the astonishingly intimate story of the most fascinating, controversial innovator of modern times, Elon Musk.	In this authoritative and engrossing full-scale biography, Walter Isaacson, bestselling author of Einstein and Steve Jobs, shows how the most fascinating of America's founders helped define our national character.	From patent clerk to genius, Einstein comes alive in this engaging, deeply researched biography—blending clear science with a vivid portrait of the man. A compelling look at how curiosity, rebellion, and creativity can change the world.	Bestseller Walter Isaacson brings Leonardo da Vinci to life in this exciting new biography that is “a study in creativity: how to define it, how to achieve it…Most important, it is a powerful story of an exhilarating mind and life” (The New Yorker).	A “compelling” (The Washington Post) account of how Nobel Prize winner Jennifer Doudna and her colleagues launched a revolution that will allow us to cure diseases, fend off viruses, and have healthier babies.

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Walter Isaacson is the bestselling author of biographies of Elon Musk, Jennifer Doudna, Leonardo da Vinci, Steve Jobs, Benjamin Franklin, and Albert Einstein. He is a professor of history at Tulane and was CEO of the Aspen Institute, chair of CNN, and editor of Time. He was awarded the National Humanities Medal in 2023. Visit him at Isaacson.Tulane.edu.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Simon & Schuster
Publication date ‏ : ‎ October 5, 2021
Edition ‏ : ‎ Reissue
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Print length ‏ : ‎ 672 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1982176865
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1982176860
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 2 pounds
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6.13 x 1.6 x 9.25 inches
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Walter Isaacson newest book is The Greatest Sentence Ever Written He is also the author of Elon Musk; The Code Breaker: Jennifer Doudna, Gene Editing, and the Future of the Human Race; Leonardo da Vinci; Steve Jobs; Einstein: His Life and Universe; Benjamin Franklin: An American Life; The Innovators: How a Group of Hackers, Geniuses, and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution; and Kissinger: A Biography. He is also the coauthor of The Wise Men: Six Friends and the World They Made. He is a Professor of History at Tulane, has been CEO of the Aspen Institute, chairman of CNN, and editor of Time magazine. In 2023, he won the National Humanities Medal.

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Customers find this biography engaging and easy to read, praising the author's writing style and comprehensive research. The book is filled with detail and provides great insight into Steve Jobs' life and personality. Customers describe it as a fascinating journey that's hard to put down, with one customer noting it teaches thousands of real-world lessons.

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3570 customers mention content, 3303 positive, 267 negative

Customers find the content of the book engaging and enjoyable, giving it 5 stars.

This book fascinated me - five stars, for sure (but can I give it six??)...Read more

...one of the most important figures of our contemporary world in this great book. Jobs himself chose Isaacson to be his biographer! This is a must-read.Read more

...various opinions of any one aspect or situation of this one man, was excellent, You get a balanced view and you are well-informed to form your own...Read more

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1659 customers mention readability, 1524 positive, 135 negative

Customers find the book highly readable and a quick read, with one customer noting it's an easy-to-read biography.

This was a great read for me. I was in the Bay Area in Mountain View when I was young in the early 60's, making the book somewhat nostalgic for me....Read more

...This is a must read for those interested in the history of the personal computer and so many other personal products that drive today's society....Read more

A beautiful and well written book. A must read. An impressive story about a special man who influenced our lives more than I was aware of....Read more

Although this book is a good read - and I can relate to a lot of the technical development chronology in the book - I was deeply disappointed by the...Read more

838 customers mention writing quality, 764 positive, 74 negative

Customers praise the writing quality of the biography, noting it is a well-written story and that Walter Isaacson is a terrific writer.

The book is well written so that even a non-technical person such as myself can understand it, although it undoubtably is more meaningful to computer...Read more

Very interesting subject and very well written. He was a brillant but very flawed individual. It did not make him sound like a very nice person,Read more

A beautiful and well written book. A must read. An impressive story about a special man who influenced our lives more than I was aware of....Read more

Excellent book. Extremely well written-reads like a novel. An accounting of early Silicon Valley with unusual incite. Highly recommend this book.Read more

823 customers mention informative, 789 positive, 34 negative

Customers find the book informative and insightful, providing great research and interesting facts, while teaching readers thousands of real-world lessons.

This book was highly engaging, honest, insightful, and walked the tightrope of giving you appreciation for someone's genius while giving a sobering...Read more

...The book itself, although detailed and informative, sometimes is simply a bit too long, meandering between less important and completely irrelevant...Read more

Very interesting book. It was easy to read and very informative. i would recommend it to anyone. It gives a great insight into the apple productsRead more

Great insight to one of the most influential people of our time. Great inside view of Apple! I appreciate my Apple devices even more.Read more

582 customers mention story, 533 positive, 49 negative

Customers find the book's story compelling and accurate, describing it as a fascinating and well-narrated journey through Steve Jobs' life.

...It has a great story of how the author came to write the review and pulls no punches on the characteristics of Jobs much of whisch are not "nice"....Read more

...a quick one though- I found myself re-reading many sections of a fascinating story, not just of the man himself, but also of the environment in...Read more

Amazing story and amazingly written. At no point did it feel as though I was reading a Bio, it felt like a movie... a good one, at that.Read more

another genius who was nuts...good writing and interesting story...i enjoyed this book very much and for any of you who are interested in learning...Read more

358 customers mention detailed, 290 positive, 68 negative

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...The book itself, although detailed and informative, sometimes is simply a bit too long, meandering between less important and completely irrelevant...Read more

...and the book was for the most part fascinating and fast-moving, thorough, interesting and cringe-worthy, but I believe I could hear refrains of...Read more

Interesting book that reads easily and quickly. It is comprehensive and flavoring to Steve Jobs who channeled his childhood problems with being...Read more

...This book is very detailed. Must read for any one interested in technology, art and philosophy.Read more

280 customers mention character, 247 positive, 33 negative

Customers appreciate the book's portrayal of Steve Jobs, describing him as a fascinating and brilliant personality who is true to his character.

Gave as much time to his flaws as his triumphs, amazing book, amazing manRead more

It was quite a look at a great man who helped change the way we interact with our technology....Read more

Fascinating character. A well written, well balanced perspective on a grate personality and it's mark on our society and IT world.Read more

Fascinating book about a fascinating person. A must read book. Walter Isaacson did a great job portraying the life and achievements of Steve Jobs.Read more

249 customers mention engrossing, 244 positive, 5 negative

Customers find the book engrossing, describing it as a book they couldn't put down.

...Very well-written, and hard to put down. Gives you a good appreciation for Job's talents, and a good degree of disgust at how he treated people....Read more

What do you say, a fantastic read, couldn't put it down. Learnt so much from it, interesting to learn how the Apple business started out and operated.Read more

I couldn't put it down. Compassionate but clear-headed in the assessment of Jobs as a leader and as a man. The book is full of insights and stories....Read more

What a story, could not put it down. An exciting series of events, thoroughly enjoyable. You will be more enlightened once you finish the book.Read more

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