Based on more than forty interviews with Steve Jobs conducted over
two years - as well as interviews with more than a hundred family
members, friends, adversaries, competitors, and colleagues - this is the
acclaimed, internationally bestselling biography of the ultimate icon
of inventiveness.
Walter
Isaacson tells the story of the rollercoaster life and searingly
intense personality of creative entrepreneur whose passion for
perfection and ferocious drive revolutionized six industries: personal
computers, animated movies, music, phones, tablet computing, and digital
publishing.
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 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.