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Great Leaders, Creative Thinkers, And Heroes Of A Hurricane
Simon & Schuster
December 2009
On Sale: November 24, 2009
304 pages
ISBN: 1439180644
EAN: 9781439180648
Hardcover
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Non-Fiction
What are the roots of creativity? What makes for great
leadership? How do influential people end up rippling the
surface of history?In this collection of essays, Walter
Isaacson reflects on the lessons to be learned from Benjamin
Franklin, Albert Einstein, Bill Gates, Henry Kissinger,
Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev, Hillary Clinton and
Bill Clinton, and various other interesting characters he
has chronicled as a biographer and journalist. The people he
writes about have an awesome intelligence, in most cases,
but that is not the secret of their success. They had
qualities that were even more rare, such as imagination and
true curiosity.Isaacson reflects on how he became a writer,
the lessons he learned from various people he met, and the
challenges he sees for journalism in the digital age.He also
offers loving tributes to his hometown of New Orleans, which
both before and after Hurricane Katrina offered many of the
ingredients for a creative culture, and to the Louisiana
novelist Walker Percy, who was an early mentor. In an
anecdotal and personal way, Isaacson describes the joys of
the "so-called writing life" and the way that tales about
the lives of fascinating people can enlighten our own lives.
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