Steve Jobs
A Biography
Published in October 2011
Book
Hardback
656 pages
978-1-4516-4853-9 (ISBN)
Description
Based on more than 40 interviews with Jobs conducted over two years--as well as interviews with more than 100 family members, friends, adversaries, competitors, and colleagues--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.
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Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Product notice
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Paper over boards
With dust jacket
Illustrations
Plates, black and white; Illustrations, black and white
Dimensions
Height: 242 mm
Width: 170 mm
Thickness: 52 mm
Weight
1014 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-4516-4853-9 (9781451648539)
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Person
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.