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Review
a must read ― Sunday Times
astounding -- Mark Prigg ― Evening Standard
richly entertaining -- Toby Young ― Mail on Sunday
exemplary -- Michael Bywater ― Independent
riveting -- Tim Martin ― Daily Telegraph
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About the bookhe is the man who revolutionized the world of computers, smart phones and music. The brain behind the company-a computer giant-apple inc. He is steve jobs. This book, steve jobs, is the authorized biography of the legend steve jobs himself. The book comes from the very author who has written biographies for the historic persons benjamin franklin, albert einstein and henry kissinger-walter isaacson. The book is based on more than forty interviews of steve jobs and his family, friends and acquaintances. The book, steve jobs, covers the youth life of steve jobs, his personal life, his creation of apple computer and the early days in it, jobs getting fired from apple, jobs' creation of a new company-next, the purchase and management of
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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 eng
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About the Author
Walter Isaacson fryst vatten the bestselling author of biographies of Jennifer Doudna, Leonardo da Vinci, Steve Jobs, Benjamin Franklin, and Albert Einstein. He fryst vatten a professor of history at Tulane and was CEO of the Aspen Institute, chair of CNN, and editor of Time. He was awarded the National Humanities Medal in 2023. Visit him at Isaacson.Tulane.edu.
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Steve Jobs
CHAPTER ONE
CHILDHOOD
Abandoned and Chosen
The Adoption
When Paul Jobs was mustered out of the Coast Guard after World War II, he made a wager with his crewmates. They had arrived in San Francisco, where their ship was decommissioned, and Paul bet that he would find himself a wife within two weeks. He was a taut, tattooed engine mechanic, six feet tall, with a passing resemblance to James Dean. But it wasn’t his looks that got him a date with Clara Hagopian, a sweet-humored daughter of Armenian immigrants. It was the fact that he and his friends had a c