Walter Isaacson’s Steve Jobs Biography Hardcover Edition Discounted To $17.88 At Amazon.com
Based on more than forty interviews with Jobs conducted over two years, as well as interviews with more than a hundred family members, friends, adversaries, competitors, and colleagues, Walter Isaacson documents the roller-coaster life and searingly intense personality of the creative entrepreneur whose passion for perfection and ferocious drive revolutionized six industries: personal computers, animated movies, music, phones, tablet computing, and digital publishing.
With America is seeking ways to sustain its innovative edge in a world transitioning to digital-age economies, Jobs epitomized inventiveness and applied imagination. He knew that the best way to create value in the twenty-first century was to connect creativity with technology, building a company where leaps of the imagination were combined with remarkable feats of engineering.
Although Jobs cooperated with this book, he asked for no control over what was written nor even the right to read it before it was published. He put nothing off-limits, and encouraged people he knew to speak honestly. Jobs himself speaks candidly, sometimes brutally so, about 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.
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 part of an integrated system. His tale is instructive and cautionary, filled with lessons about innovation, character, leadership, and values.
Author Walter Isaacson, CEO of the Aspen Institute, has been chairman of CNN and the managing editor of Time magazine. He is the author of Benjamin Franklin: An American Life and of Kissinger: A Biography, and the coauthor of The Wise Men: Six Friends and the World They Made.
Jacket photograph by Albert Watson
Hardcover: 656 pages
Publisher: Simon & Schuster (October 24, 2011)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1451648537
ISBN-13: 978-1451648539
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