Steve Jobs
Based on more than forty interviews with Jobs conducted over two years -- as well as interviews with more than a hundred 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, and when societies around the world are trying to build digital-age economies, 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 this book, he asked for no control over what was written nor even the right to read it before it was published. He put nothing off-limits. He encouraged the people he knew to speak honestly. And Jobs speaks candidly, sometimes brutal
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Walter Isaacson's authorized biography of Steve Jobs, drawn from dozens of interviews with Jobs himself and over a hundred with family, friends, rivals, and colleagues, traces the founder from adoption to last days.
Yes. Walter Isaacson's Steve Jobs (2011) was written with Jobs's full cooperation, including over 40 interviews with Jobs himself. The biography was rushed to publication shortly after Jobs's death.
Yes. The 2015 film directed by Danny Boyle and written by Aaron Sorkin draws on Walter Isaacson's biography. Earlier films including Jobs (2013) and Steve Jobs: The Lost Interview also exist.
Steve Jobs was written by Walter Isaacson, published in 2011 by Simon & Schuster.
Steve Jobs is 672 pages in standard print editions, though page counts vary slightly between hardcover, paperback, and large-print formats.
At an average reading pace of about 250 words per minute, Steve Jobs takes most readers 10 to 15 hours to finish.
Steve Jobs is a standalone novel by Walter Isaacson, not part of a series.
Steve Jobs is available in hardcover, paperback, ebook, and audiobook formats from Amazon, Bookshop.org, ThriftBooks, and most major bookstores.