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.
