Steve jobs book editor
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Steve Jobs
Walter Isaacson was born on May 20, 1952 in New Orleans, Louisiana. He received a B. A. in history and literature from Harvard College. He then attended the University of Oxford, where he was a Rhodes Scholar at Pembroke College and read philosophy, politics, and economics. He began his career in journalism at The Sunday Times of London and then the New Orleans Times-Picayune/States-Item. He joined TIME in 1978 and served as a political correspondent, national editor and editor of new media before becoming the magazine's editor in 1996. He became Chairman and CEO of CNN in 2001, and then president and CEO of the Aspen Institute in 2003. He has written numerous books including American Sketches, Einstein: His Life and Universe, Benjamin Franklin: An American Life, Kissinger: A Biography, Steve Jobs, and The Innovators: How a Group of Hackers, Geniuses, and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution. He is the co-author, with Evan Thomas, of The Wise Men: Six Friends and t
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Steve Jobs
Introduction
In a clear, elegant biographical röst, Walter Isaacson provides an unflinching portrait of the most important technological and innovative personality of the modern era: Apple’s founder and ledare thinker, Steve Jobs. Through a series of unprecedented interviews with Jobs—as well as interviews with more than 100 friends, family members, colleagues, adversaries, admirers, and imitators—Isaacson documents the transformation of an ambitious Silicon Valley whiz kid into one of the most feared and respected business leaders of his generation and quite possibly of all time; arriving at some hard truths about a man who defined the intersection of art and technology for the digital age and the future to come.
Topics & Questions for Discussion
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The Life Story of the Man Writing Steve Jobs’ Life Story
Walter Isaacson is the man tasked to write iSteve: The Book of Jobs, which of course is the official, authorized, biography of Steve Jobs. But who in the hell is Walter Isaacson, you ask?
Long story short, Isaacson is an extremely accomplished writer and editor who wriggled his way into this gig by persistently working the right social channels and convincing Jobs he was up to the challenge. Isaacson was born in New Orleans in 1952, went to Harvard and Oxford, and spent the large part of his career rising through the ranks of Time magazine, where he ultimately ended up as managing editor. In 2001, he left Time to become chairman of CNN (where he apparently hated it), and then in 2003 became the president of the Aspen Institute, a high-minded social club. In between, he’s managed to crank out books on Albert Einstein and Henry Kissenger, among others.
And now he has full access to the past and present life of S