Walter Isaacson. Simon & Schuster, $35 (656p) ISBN 978-1-4516-4853-9
If not the greatest of computer moguls, the late Apple Computer co-founder was certainly the most colorful and charismatic to judge by this compelling biography. Journalist Isaacson (Albert Einstein) had his subject's intimate cooperation but doesn't
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Walter Isaacson, read by Alfred Molina. S&S Audio, , unabridged, 14 CDs, 17 hrs., $49.99 ISBN 978-1-5082-4198-0
Screen, television, and stage actor Molina (Raiders of the Lost Ark, Not Without My Daughter), elegantly narrates Isaacson’s sweeping biography of Leonardo da Vinci. Molina effortlessly navigates Italian place names and surnames, and there is a...
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Walter Isaacson. Simon & Schuster, $35 (624p) ISBN 978-1-5011-3915-4
Praising the subject of this illuminating biography as “history’s most creative genius,” Isaacson (The Innovators) uses observations and insights in the 7,200 extant pages of notes Leonardo da Vinci left behind as interpretive touchstones for...
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Walter Isaacson. Simon & Schuster, $35 (544p) ISBN 978-1-4767-0869-0
The history of the computer as told through this fascinating book is not the story of great leaps forward but rather one of halting progress. Journalist and Aspen Institute CEO Isaacson (Steve Jobs) presents an episodic survey of advances in...
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Walter Isaacson, Author . Simon & Schuster $30 (608p) ISBN 978-0-684-80761-4
Following closely on the heels of Edmund Morgan's justly acclaimed Benjamin Franklin,
Isaacson's longer biography easily holds its own. How do the two books differ? Isaacson's is more detailed; it lingers over such matters as the nature
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Walter Isaacson, Author Simon & Schuster $22.45 (864p) ISBN 978-0-671-50465-6
This extensive group-portrait by two Time news editors trumpets the role of six policymakersDean Acheson, Averell Harriman, George Kennan, John McCloy Jr., Charles Bohlen, Robert Lovettin taking postWW II America from isolationism to a recognition...
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Walter Isaacson, Author Simon & Schuster $25 (896p) ISBN 978-0-671-87236-6
The fullest account of Kissinger's life and career to date, other than his memoirs, this spooky, engrossing portrait--a BOMC main selection in cloth--provides plenty of ammunition for the former Secretary of State's supporters and detractors both....
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Walter Isaacson, Author Simon & Schuster $30 (880p) ISBN 978-0-671-66323-0
The fullest account of Kissinger's life and career to date, other than for his memoirs, this massive biography provides plenty of ammunition for the former Secretary of State's supporters and detractors. Growing up in Nazi Germany as an Orthodox Jew,
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Walter Isaacson, Author . Simon & Schuster $25.99 (285p) ISBN 978-1-4391-8064-8
Conventional wisdom is stoutly defended in this staid collection of essays, mostly culled from the author's newspaper and magazine articles. Isaacson (Einstein
) has a knack for finding the middle ground and the incontestable truism in any...
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Walter Isaacson, Author . Simon & Schuster $32 (675p) ISBN 978-0-7432-6473-0
Acclaimed biographer Isaacson examines the remarkable life of "science's preeminent poster boy" in this lucid account (after 2003's Benjamin Franklin
and 1992's Kissinger
). Contrary to popular myth, the German-Jewish schoolboy...
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Walter Isaacson, read by Dylan Baker. Simon & Schuster Audio, unabridged, 20 CDs, 24.5 hrs., $49.99 ISBN 978-1-4423-4627-7
Isaacson’s authorized biography of the founder of Apple Computers draws upon 40 interviews with Steve Jobs as well as 100 interviews with Jobs’s friends, co-workers, and adversaries. Surprisingly, the notoriously secretive Jobs was the biography’s...
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Walter Isaacson, Author, Edward Herrmann, Read by , read by Edward Herrmann. Simon & Schuster Audio $49.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-7435-6138-9
Herrmann's reading offers solid, enjoyable and informative listening. Herrmann knows when his material is strong and does not try to compete with it. Instead, he delivers a straightforward yet endearing portrait of arguably the best mind of the
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Walter Isaacson, Author, Boyd Gaines, Read by , read by Boyd Gaines. Simon & Schuster Audio $26 (0p) ISBN 978-0-7435-3364-5
Most people's mental image of Ben Franklin is that of an aged man with wire-rim glasses and a comb-over, flying a kite in a thunder storm, or of the spirited face that stares back from a one-hundred-dollar bill. Isaacson's (Kissinger)...
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Walter Isaacson. Simon & Schuster, $35 (560p) ISBN 978-1-9821-1585-2
Biographer Isaacson (Leonardo da Vinci) depicts science at its most exhilarating in this lively biography of Jennifer Doudna, the winner of the 2020 Nobel Prize in chemistry for her work on the CRISPR system of gene editing. Born in 1964, Doudna...
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Walter Isaacson. Simon & Schuster, $35 (688p) ISBN 978-1-9821-8128-4
Reckless ambition, ruthless drive, and psychic demons swaddle the soul of a wounded child in this sweeping biography of the celebrated industrialist. Biographer Isaacson (Steve Jobs) paints Musk as a tech visionary who wants to colonize Mars with...
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