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Simon & Schuster
November 2011
On Sale: October 24, 2011
656 pages
ISBN: 1451648537
EAN: 9781451648539
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Non-Fiction Biography
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 passion for perfection and
ferocious drive revolutionized six industries: personal
computers, animated movies, music, phones, tablet computing,
and digital publishing. At a time when America is seeking ways to sustain its
innovative edge, and when societies around the world are
trying to build digital-age economies, Jobs stands as the
ultimate icon of inventiveness and applied imagination. He
knew that the best way to create value in the twenty-first
century was to connect creativity with technology. He built
a company where leaps of the imagination were combined with
remarkable feats of engineering. 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. Driven by demons, Jobs could drive those around him to fury
and despair. But his personality and products were
interrelated, just as Apple’s hardware and software tended
to be, as if part of an integrated system. His tale is
instructive and cautionary, filled with lessons about
innovation, character, leadership, and values.
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