Steve Jobs

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Simon and Schuster, 2011 M10 24 - 630 pages
Walter Isaacson’s “enthralling” (The New Yorker) worldwide bestselling biography of Apple cofounder Steve Jobs.

Based on more than forty interviews with Steve Jobs conducted over two years—as well as interviews with more than 100 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. Isaacson’s portrait touched millions of readers.

At a time when America is seeking ways to sustain its innovative edge, 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 the author, he asked for no control over what was written. He put nothing off-limits. He encouraged the people he knew to speak honestly. He himself spoke candidly about the people he worked with and competed against.

His friends, foes, and colleagues offer 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.

His tale is instructive and cautionary, filled with lessons about innovation, character, leadership, and values.

Steve Jobs is the inspiration for the movie of the same name starring Michael Fassbender, Kate Winslet, Seth Rogen, and Jeff Daniels, directed by Danny Boyle with a screenplay by Aaron Sorkin.

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Contents

CHAPTER
1
CHAPTER
21
CHAPTER THREE
31
CHAPTER FOUR
42
CHAPTER FIVE
56
He Who Is Abandoned
86
CHAPTER EIGHT
92
A Man of Wealth and Fame
102
CHAPTER TWENTYTHREE
293
CHAPTER TWENTYFOUR
305
CHAPTER TWENTYFIVE
327
CHAPTER TWENTYSIX
340
CHAPTER TWENTYSEVEN
348
CHAPTER TWENTYEIGHT
358
CHAPTER TWENTYNINE
368
CHAPTER THIRTY
378

CHAPTER
108
Playing by His Own Set of Rules
117
CHAPTER TWELVE
125
The Journey Is the Reward
135
CHAPTER FOURTEEN
148
CHAPTER FIFTEEN
159
CHAPTER SIXTEEN
171
CHAPTER SEVENTEEN
180
Prometheus Unbound
211
CHAPTER NINETEEN
238
CHAPTER TWENTY
250
CHAPTER TWENTYONE
267
Buzz and Woody to the Rescue
284
CHAPTER THIRTYONE
394
The Sound Track of His Life
411
and Foes
426
CHAPTER THIRTYFOUR
444
Memento Mori
452
CHAPTER THIRTYSIX
465
The Cancer Recurs
476
CHAPTER THIRTYEIGHT
490
CHAPTER THIRTYNINE
511
CHAPTER FORTY
525
The Twilight Struggle
538
The Brightest Heaven of Invention
560
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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 the World They Made.

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