Steve Jobs (2011)
Steve Jobs is a 2011 technology & engineering / general book written by Walter Isaacson.
Walter Isaacson built this authorized biography from more than forty interviews with Steve Jobs and a hundred more with the family, friends, rivals, and colleagues who orbited him. It tracks Jobs from an adopted childhood in Silicon Valley through the founding of Apple, his exile, and the return that produced the iMac, iPod, iPhone, and iPad. Isaacson does not sand down the sharp edges. Jobs emerges as a visionary and a tyrant, a man whose obsession with beauty and control could inspire genius and cruelty in the same afternoon. Jobs asked for no editorial say and read none of it before print, and the candor shows.
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Walter Isaacson built this authorized biography from more than forty interviews with Steve Jobs and a hundred more with the family, friends, rivals, and colleagues who orbited him. It tracks Jobs from an adopted childhood in Silicon Valley through the founding of Apple, his exile, and the return that produced the iMac, iPod, iPhone, and iPad. Isaacson does not sand down the sharp edges. Jobs emerges as a visionary and a tyrant, a man whose obsession with beauty and control could inspire genius and cruelty in the same afternoon. Jobs asked for no editorial say and read none of it before print, and the candor shows.
When was Steve Jobs published?
Steve Jobs was published in 2011.
Who made Steve Jobs?
Steve Jobs was written by Walter Isaacson.
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Walter Isaacson's portrait of a brilliant, impossible perfectionist rhymes with Oppenheimer, where another driven mind bends a whole field to his will and pays for it. For the birth of the personal-computer era as pure drama, The Social Network stages the same collision of friendship, ego, and world-changing code, and Halt and Catch Fire stretches it across the industry's messy 1980s.
Founders who reshaped an industry and paid for it personally
Isaacson's Steve Jobs got exiled from the company he built, then came back changed and finished the job. Oppenheimer built something the world couldn't put down, Halt and Catch Fire's PC-era founders burn through partners chasing the same obsession, and Made in India tracks an industrialist rebuilding an empire from scratch. The Wolf of Wall Street shows what happens when that drive curdles.
Real lives told without the flattering edit
Isaacson wrote this Steve Jobs biography with no editorial control handed back to its subject, warts included. That same unsparing honesty runs through Just Kids' account of a young artist's hunger, Frederick Douglass's own narrative of his path out of slavery, and Maus's telling of a father's survival through his son's eyes. Disappearance Diary and American Experience trade polish for the same plain truth.
Perfectionists whose genius made them impossible to work for
Jobs demanded the impossible from everyone around him and rarely apologized for it. Michael follows the same tension in Michael Jackson's chase for perfection, Dangal's coach pushes his daughters past the point most parents would stop, and Hacksaw Ridge's Desmond Doss holds a line nobody else will hold. The Pursuit of Happyness and GoodFellas chart what that kind of will actually costs.