Steve Jobs, The Exclusive Biography

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2011

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From bestselling author Walter Isaacson comes the landmark biography of
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Apple co-founder Steve Jobs. In Steve Jobs, A Biography, Isaacson
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provides an extraordinary account of Jobs’ professional and personal life.
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Drawn from more than forty exclusive interviews that Isaacson conducted Chinese Complex Commonwealth
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with Jobs over the course of two years—as well as with family members,
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colleagues, rivals, friends, and adversaries—Steve Jobs is the definitive
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portrait of our era’s most creative and innovative business leader.
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Isaacson’s book spans Jobs' entire life, the private and the public, covering
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exclusive details on his childhood, early influences of Buddhism, tales from
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inside his design studio, vision at Pixar, and innovative spirit at Apple.
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Born in 1955 and a product of the late ‘60s San Francisco Bay-area, where Spectrum
flower power and computer processing intersected, young Jobs embraced a
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variety of experiences and contradictions: LSD, veganism, and meditation
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along with fascination for electronics and technology. He co-founded Apple Company
as a 21-year-old in his parents’ garage, brought it to huge success, was French Editions Lattes
ousted in 1985, and eventually returned in 1997. The one constant
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throughout his life was the drive to explore the intersection of art and Bertelsmann
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led to the creation of revolutionary products that have changed the world. Greece
He played by his own set of rules in all facets of life. Gujarati R. R. Sheth & Co.
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Isaacson writes, “This book is about the roller coaster life and searingly Hebrew Modan Publishers
intense personality of a creative entrepreneur whose passion for perfection Hungarian HVG Publishng
and ferocious drive revolutionized six industries: personal computers, House
animated movies, music, phones, tablet computing, and digital publishing. Icelandic Sena
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revolutionize, but he did reimagine. Plus, he opened the way for a new Pustaka

market for digital content based on apps rather than just websites”. Italian Arnoldo Mondadori
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This book tells the greatest business story of our time. When Jobs took
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over Apple for the second time in 1997, the company was seven weeks
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from bankruptcy, and he made it the most valuable company on earth. He
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not only produced transforming products but also “a lasting company,
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endowed with his DNA and filled with creative designers and daredevil
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engineers who could carry forward his vision”.
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The genesis of this book, Isaacson has noted, came seven years ago: “In
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the early summer of 2004, I got a phone call from him. He had been
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scattershot friendly to me over the years, with occasional bursts of intensity,
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especially when he was launching a new product that he wanted on the
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cover of Time or featured on CNN, places where I’d worked.… It turned out
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that he wanted me to write a biography of him. I had recently published one
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on Benjamin Franklin and was writing one about Albert Einstein, and my
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initial reaction was to wonder, half-jokingly, whether he saw himself as the
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natural successor in that sequence. Because I assumed that he was still in
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the middle of an oscillating career that had many more ups and downs left, I
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demurred. Not now, I said. Maybe in a decade or two, when you retire”.
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“But I later realized that he had called me just before he was going to be
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operated on for cancer for the first time. As I watched him battle that
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disease, with an awesome intensity combined with an astonishing
emotional romanticism, I came to find him deeply compelling, and I realized Spanish Debate

how deeply his personality was ingrained in the products he created. His Swedish Albert Bonniers
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passions, perfectionism, demons, desires, artistry, devilry, and obsession
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for control were integrally connected to his approach to business, so I
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decided to try to write his tale as a case study of creativity” (Time
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magazine).
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Isaacson adds, “As it turned out, Jobs was right. He is a fitting successor to Group Plc
Franklin and Einstein. Each of them had an intuitive genius, a creative
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imagination, an ability to think differently, and the type of magical mind that
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it takes to be an innovator. They weren’t merely smart, they were Publishing
imaginative and creative. That’s what it will take to succeed in the 21st Vietnamese Alpha Books Co.
century.”
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Although Jobs co-operated with this book, he asked for no control over
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what was written. He put nothing off-limits and encouraged the people he
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story of the greatest business executive of our time.

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