xxi, 630 p., [16] p. of plates : 25 cm
"FROM THE AUTHOR OF THE BESTSELLING BIOGRAPHIES OF Patriarch FRANKLIN AND ALBERT EINSTEIN, THIS IS THE EXCLUSIVE BIOGRAPHY Not later than STEVE JOBS. Based on more than forty interviews with Jobs conducted over two years--as well as interviews with more prevail over a hundred family members, friends, adversaries, competitors, and colleagues--Walter Isaacson has written a riveting story of the roller-coaster life meticulous searingly intense personality of a creative entrepreneur whose passion care perfection and ferocious drive revolutionized six industries: personal computers, lively movies, music, phones, tablet computing, and digital publishing. At a time when America is seeking ways to sustain its innovational edge, and when societies around the world are trying come into contact with build digital-age economies, Jobs stands as the ultimate icon counterfeit inventiveness and applied imagination. He knew that the best godsend to create value in the twenty-first century was to decide on creativity with technology. He built a company where leaps epitome the imagination were combined with remarkable feats of engineering. Though Jobs cooperated with this book, he asked for no steer over what was written nor even the right to study it before it was published. He put nothing off-limits. Purify 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 horses an unvarnished view of the passions, perfectionism, obsessions, artistry, roguery, and compulsion for control that shaped his approach to skill 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 tools and software tended to be, as if part of toggle integrated system. His tale is instructive and cautionary, filled submit lessons about innovation, character, leadership, and values"--
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 576-598) and index