Steve Jobs
by Walter Isaacson
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78%
Critic Reviews: 22
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Synopsis
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 years—as well as interviews with more than a hundred 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... more
About Walter Isaacson
Published: October 1, 2011 by Simon and Schuster
Genre: Biographies & Memoirs, Business & Economics. Non-fiction. 656 pages
- All Critics: 22
- Positive: 18
- Negative: 4
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The New York Review of Books
Artists, he seemed to believe, got a pass on bad behavior. Isaacson seems to think so, too, proving that it is possible to write a hagiography even while exposing the worst in a person.
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Gory Bowes Taylor
In a consumer-crazy world that worships Mammon, Jobs’s declaration is truly inspiring: ‘I’ve never done this for the money.’ For this alone, Isaacson’s biography is a must-read.
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Daring Fireball | 14 Feb 2012
There is much that is wrong with Walter Isaacson’s biography of Jobs, but its treatment of software is the most profound of the book’s flaws.
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The New York Times | 21 Oct 2011
His story calls for a book that is clear, elegant and concise enough to qualify as an iBio. Mr. Isaacson’s “Steve Jobs” does its solid best to hit that target.
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Write Meg | 19 Mar 2012
Isaacson has created a picture of Jobs that feels authentic.
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Open Letters Monthly
In the course of nearly six-hundred pages, he fails to mention the elephant in the room: Apple’s horrific track record in China, by many accounts, the worst among its peers.
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The Guardian | 25 Oct 2011
Isaacson writes dutiful, lumbering American news-mag journalese and suffers – as did Jobs himself – from a lack of sense of proportion.
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The National Business Reviews | 5 May 2012
Usually, I’d rather gouge my own eyes out than read an authorised biography of a business leader. . .Now, I wish I hadn’t waited so long.
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The Telegraph | 27 Oct 2012
. . .a riveting book, with as much to say about the transformation of modern life in the information age as about its supernaturally gifted and driven subject. . .
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Cosmos
. . .Isaacson has done a deft job of bringing a deep, warts-and-all insight into an intriguing powerhouse of ideas, and it will probably stand as the definitive portrait.
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The Independent | 4 Nov 2011
It's a - literally - epic story, superbly told by Isaacson with none of the breathlessness of the usual boring hatchet-faced Chief Executive's Tale.
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Technorati Technology | 3 Nov 2011
If you are interested in the history of the digital age, and the emergence of digital culture, Isaacson's book is a must read.
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Entertainment Weekly | 24 Oct 2011
What’s important is that Isaacson has taken the complete measure of the man.
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Los Angeles Times | 29 Oct 2011
It's great stuff, and the communicated thrill of work and invention brings "Steve Jobs" to life.
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The New Yorker | 14 Nov 2011
“There are parts of his life and personality that are extremely messy, and that’s the truth,” Powell tells Isaacson. “You shouldn’t whitewash it.” Isaacson, to his credit, does not.
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Technology Tell | 21 Dec 2011
The book is a balanced, uncompromising and very entertaining look at Jobs' life and career. . .
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Washington Independent Review of Books
Isaacson’s biography of Jobs is likely to cost a reader more than the price of the book. By the time one is finished, there is an almost irresistible urge to rush to the nearest Apple store to buy everything in sight.
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The Washington Post | 23 Oct 2011
Isaacson clearly admires Jobs. . .But he still holds his subject to task for his often boorish behavior. . .
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Kirkus Reviews | 15 Nov 2011
Though the narrative could have used a tighter edit in a few places, Isaacson's portrait of this complex, often unlikable genius is, to quote Jobs, insanely great.
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Publishers Weekly
Isaacson's. . .gives us a great warts-and-all portrait of an entrepreneurial spirit--and one of the best accounts yet of the human side of the computer biz.
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