Steve Jobs

Walter Isaacson

Simon and Schuster, Oct 24, 2011 - Biography & Autobiography - 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
• He Who Is Abandoned: 86
• CHAPTER EIGHT: 92
• A Man of Wealth and Fame: 102
• CHAPTER: 108
• Real Artists Simplify: 125
• The Journey Is the Reward: 135
• CHAPTER FOURTEEN: 148
• A Dent in the Universe: 159
• CHAPTER SIXTEEN: 171
• CHAPTER SEVENTEEN: 180
• Prometheus Unbound: 211
• CHAPTER NINETEEN: 238
• Love Is Just a FourLetter Word: 250
• CHAPTER TWENTYONE: 267
• Buzz and Woody to the Rescue: 284
• CHAPTER TWENTYTHREE: 293
• CHAPTER TWENTYFOUR: 305
• CHAPTER TWENTYFIVE: 327
• CHAPTER TWENTYSIX: 340
• CHAPTER TWENTYSEVEN: 348
• Still Crazy after All These Years: 358
• CHAPTER TWENTYNINE: 368
• CHAPTER THIRTY: 378
• Im the Pied Piper: 394
• The Sound Track of His Life: 411
• and Foes: 426
• CHAPTER THIRTYFOUR: 444
• Memento Mori: 452
• CHAPTER THIRTYSIX: 465
• The Cancer Recurs: 476
• CHAPTER THIRTYEIGHT: 490
• CHAPTER THIRTYNINE: 511
• The Cloud the Spaceship and Beyond: 525
• The Twilight Struggle: 538
• The Brightest Heaven of Invention: 560
• Epilogue: 573
• Afterword: 579

About the author

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.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Steve Jobs
• Author: Walter Isaacson
• Edition: illustrated, reprint
• Publisher: Simon and Schuster, 2011
• ISBN: 1451648537, 9781451648539
• Length: 630 pages
• Subjects: BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / General; Biography & Autobiography / Business; Biography & Autobiography / General; Business & Economics / Industries / Computers & Information Technology; Business & Economics / Leadership; Computers / History; TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / General; Technology & Engineering / General