Steve Jobs

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Simon and Schuster, 2011 - 630 pages
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.
 

Contents

chapter
1
chapter
21
chapter three
31
chapter four
42
chapter five
56
Dawn of a New Age
71
He Who Is Abandoned
86
chapter eight
92
The Loser Now Will Be Later to Win
305
chapter twentyfive
327
chapter twentysix
340
chapter twentyseven
348
Still Crazy after All These Years
358
Genius Bars and Siena Sandstone
368
chapter thirty
378
The Sound Track of His Life
411

A Man of Wealth and Fame
102
You Say You Want a Revolution
108
Playing by His Own Set of Rules
117
chapter twelve
125
The Journey Is the Reward
135
The Pepsi Challenge
148
A Dent in the Universe
159
When Orbits Intersect
171
Prometheus Unbound
211
Technology Meets Art
238
Love Is Just a FourLetter Word
250
Buzz and Woody to the Rescue
284
What Rough Beast Its Hour Come Round at Last
293
Setting Apple Apart
444
Memento Mori
452
chapter thirtysix
465
chapter thirtyseven
476
chapter thirtyeight
490
chapter thirtynine
511
chapter forty
525
chapter fortyone
538
The Brightest Heaven of Invention
560
Epilogue
573
Sources
579
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About the author (2011)

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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