2012 Audie Award Finalist for Audiobook of the Year 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. 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 21st 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. 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. 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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