Biography steve jobs walter isaacson reviews

There are many adjectives that I would use to describe Steve Jobs &#; „dull” is not one of them.

I don’t think I would have had the patience to read a biography of this length if I hadn’t been listening to it on Audible.

I listened to it over a few months, dipping in at leisure, and taking breaks when it got to be a bit too much.

Steve Jobs had asked Walter Isaacson to become his biographer. Jobs was seriously ill at the time, but he didn’t like to admit as much- neither to the public nor to himself.

Isaacson had only written about great dead men (Benjamin Franklin, Albert Einstein).  It had seemed arrogant of Jobs to request the same treatment.  But Isaacson only agreed to the task on the condition that he would be allowed free reign over whom he interviews and what he asks.

Isaacson’s magisterial biography captures many of the contradictions that marked Jobs’s life.

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