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Steve Jobs Hardcover - 2011
by Walter Isaacson
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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FROM THE AUTHOR OF THE BESTSELLING BIOGRAPHIES OF BENJAMIN FRANKLIN AND ALBERT EINSTEIN, THIS IS THE EXCLUSIVE BIOGRAPHY OF STEVE JOBS.
Based on more than forty interviews with Jobs conducted over two yearsâÈ'as well as interviews with more than a hundred family members, friends, adversaries, competitors, and colleaguesâÈ'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, and when societies around the world are trying to build digital-age economies, Jobs stands as the ultimate icon of inventiveness and applied imagination. He knew that the best way to create value in the twenty-first 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 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. 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 AppleâÈçs 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.
Based on more than forty interviews with Jobs conducted over two yearsâÈ'as well as interviews with more than a hundred family members, friends, adversaries, competitors, and colleaguesâÈ'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, and when societies around the world are trying to build digital-age economies, Jobs stands as the ultimate icon of inventiveness and applied imagination. He knew that the best way to create value in the twenty-first 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 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. 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 AppleâÈçs 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.
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- Title Steve Jobs
- Author Walter Isaacson
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition First Edition
- Pages 656
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Simon & Schuster, New York
- Date 2011-10-24
- Illustrated Yes
- Features Bibliography, Dust Cover, Illustrated, Index, Price on Product - Canadian, Table of Contents
- ISBN 9781451648539 / 1451648537
- Weight 2.16 lbs (0.98 kg)
- Dimensions 9.41 x 6.45 x 1.8 in (23.90 x 16.38 x 4.57 cm)
- Reading level 1080
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Themes
- Chronological Period: 21st Century
- Chronological Period: 1950-1999
- Library of Congress subjects Chief executive officers - United States, Businesspeople - United States
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2011045006
- Dewey Decimal Code B
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Citations
- Books & Culture, 03/01/2013, Page 30
- Choice, 04/01/2012, Page 0
- Entertainment Weekly, 12/02/2011, Page 45
- Kirkus Reviews, 11/15/2011, Page 0
- New York Review of Books, 01/12/2012, Page 24
- People Weekly, 12/05/2011, Page 152
- Poder Hispanic, 10/01/2011, Page 84
- Publishers Weekly, 12/19/2011, Page 0
- Shelf Awareness, 10/28/2011, Page 0
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