Steve Jobs / Walter Isaacson.
Material type: TextPublication details: New York : Simon & Schuster, 2011.Edition: 1st Simon & Schuster hardcover edDescription: xxi, 630 p., [16] p. of plates : ill., ports. ; 25 cmISBN:- 9781451648539 (hardbound)
- 621.39 ISA
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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. Isaacson's portrait touched millions of readers.
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 the twenty-first 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. He himself spoke candidly about the people he worked with and competed against.
His friends, foes, and colleagues offer 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.
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.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 576-598) and index.
Table of contents provided by Syndetics
- Characters (p. xiii)
- Introduction: How This Book Came to Be (p. xvii)
- Chapter 1 Childhood: Abandoned and Chosen (p. 1)
- Chapter 2 Odd Couple: The Two Steves (p. 21)
- Chapter 3 The Dropout: Turn On, Tune In ... (p. 31)
- Chapter 4 Atari and India: Zen and the Art of Game Design (p. 42)
- Chapter 5 The Apple I: Turn On, Boot Up, Jack In ... (p. 56)
- Chapter 6 The Apple II: Dawn of a New Age (p. 71)
- Chapter 7 Chrisann and Lisa: He Who Is Abandoned ... (p. 86)
- Chapter 8 Xerox and Lisa: Graphical User Interfaces (p. 92)
- Chapter 9 Going Public: A Man of Wealth and Fame (p. 102)
- Chapter 10 The Mac Is Born: You Say You Want a Revolution (p. 108)
- Chapter 11 The Reality Distortion Field: Playing by His Own Set of Rules (p. 117)
- Chapter 12 The Design: Real Artists Simplify (p. 125)
- Chapter 13 Building the Mac: The Journey Is the Reward (p. 135)
- Chapter 14 Enter Sculley: The Pepsi Challenge (p. 148)
- Chapter 15 The Launch: A Dent in the Universe (p. 159)
- Chapter 16 Gates and Jobs: When Orbits Intersect (p. 171)
- Chapter 17 Icarus: What Goes Up ... (p. 180)
- Chapter 18 Next: Prometheus Unbound (p. 211)
- Chapter 19 Pixar: Technology Meets Art (p. 238)
- Chapter 20 A Regular Guy: Love Is Just a Four-Letter Word (p. 250)
- Chapter 21 Family Man: At Home with the Jobs Clan (p. 267)
- Chapter 22 Toy Story: Buzz and Woody to the Rescue (p. 284)
- Chapter 23 The Second Coming: What Rough Beast, Its Hour Come Round at Last ... (p. 293)
- Chapter 24 The Restoration: The Loser Now Will Be Later to Win (p. 305)
- Chapter 25 Think Different: Jobs as iCEO (p. 327)
- Chapter 26 Design Principles: The Studio of Jobs and Ive (p. 340)
- Chapter 27 The iMac: Hello (Again) (p. 348)
- Chapter 28 CEO: Still Crazy after All These Years (p. 358)
- Chapter 29 Apple Stores: Genius Bars and Siena Sandstone (p. 368)
- Chapter 30 The Digital Hub: From iTunes to the iPod (p. 378)
- Chapter 31 The iTunes Store: I'm the Pied Piper (p. 394)
- Chapter 32 Music Man: The Sound Track of His Life (p. 411)
- Chapter 33 Pixar's Friends: ... and Foes (p. 426)
- Chapter 34 Twenty-first-century Macs: Setting Apple Apart (p. 444)
- Chapter 35 Round One: Memento Mori (p. 452)
- Chapter 36 The iPhone: Three Revolutionary Products in One (p. 465)
- Chapter 37 Round Two: The Cancer Recurs (p. 476)
- Chapter 38 The iPad: Into the Post-PC Era (p. 490)
- Chapter 39 New Battles: And Echoes of Old Ones (p. 511)
- Chapter 40 To Infinity: The Cloud, the Spaceship, and Beyond (p. 525)
- Chapter 41 Round Three: The Twilight Struggle (p. 538)
- Chapter 42 Legacy: The Brightest Heaven of Invention (p. 560)
- Acknowledgments (p. 573)
- Sources (p. 575)
- Notes (p. 579)
- Index (p. 599)
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Author notes provided by Syndetics
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.
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