Steve Jobs
Good Books rating 4.5
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- ID: 135
- Added: 2025-09-03
- Updated: 2025-09-03
- ISBN: 9781451648546
- Publisher: Simon and Schuster
- Published: 2011-01-01
- Reviews: 3
Based on more than 40 interviews with Jobs conducted over two years--as well as interviews with more than 100 family members, friends, adversaries, competitors, and colleagues--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.
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- Walter Isaacson's “Steve Jobs” is a riveting biography that offers an in-depth look at the life and legacy of one of the most influential figures in technology.
- The book balances Steve Jobs’ innovative achievements with his personal challenges.
- It captures the essence of Jobs’ visionary mind and the complexity of his character.
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- It's a measure of the brilliance of this book that my first thought having read it was that Steve Jobs was an excellent subject for a biography.
- The book reveals the complexity of a man who was both inspiring and difficult.
- Isaacson manages to portray Jobs' genius alongside his human flaws.
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- Walter Isaacson's biography of Steve Jobs makes some play of the fact that Jobs deliberately ceded control of the 'product'.
- It's the sense of relentlessness about Steve Jobs' ambition, expressed through iPods, iPads and iPhones, that comes through Isaacson's book.
- The book offers a candid portrait of a man who was both visionary and deeply flawed.