Steve Jobs: The Exclusive Biography - Softcover

Isaacson, Walter

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0349139598 ISBN 13: 9780349139593

Publisher: Little, Brown, 2013

Synopsis

Based on more than forty interviews with Steve Jobs conducted over two years - as well as interviews with more than a hundred family members, friends, adversaries, competitors, and colleagues - this is the acclaimed, internationally bestselling biography of the ultimate icon of inventiveness. Walter Isaacson tells the story of the rollercoaster life and searingly intense personality of creative entrepreneur whose passion for perfection and ferocious drive revolutionized six industries: personal computers, animated movies, music, phones, tablet computing, and digital publishing.

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.

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Review:

a must read (Sunday Times)

astounding (Mark Prigg Evening Standard)

richly entertaining (Toby Young Mail on Sunday)

exemplary (Michael Bywater Independent)

riveting (Tim Martin Daily Telegraph)

Book Description:

* An extraordinary book which gives us a unique insight into the life and thinking of the man who has single-handedly transformed the way we live today

About this edition

• Publisher: Little, Brown
• Publication date: 2013
• ISBN 10: 0349139598
• ISBN 13: 9780349139593
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 592