Steve jobs biography mp
- Isaacson's Jobs biography does four things very convincingly: he shows us that Steve Jobs was (a) a genius, (b) a hateful and poisonous human.
- Traces the inspiring life and career of the late founder of Apple, covering topics ranging from his struggles as an adopted child and a college dropout.
- Steve Jobs was born in 1955 in San Francisco and adopted by Paul and Clara Jobs.
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Speaker 1(00:10):
This is Lee Habib and this is our American Stories,
the show where America is the star and the American people.
Up next, the story of an American innovator and an
American artist. We're talking about Steve Jobs. Here to tell
the story is Walter Isaacson, the author of the biography
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of Steve Jobs, among so many others. We'd like to
thank the Library of Congress for allowing us to use
this audio. Let's get into the story.
Speaker 2(00:39):
It was about eight years ago that I got a
phone call from Steve Jobs. I had known him for
the past twenty years, since nineteen eighty four when he
came to Time magazine to show off that wonderful Macintosh computer,
and even back then in nineteen eighty four, I saw
the passion for perfection and also that impatience that was
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bred into his personality, and how those two things were connected.
He showed off the Macintosh at Time Magazine and how
beautiful each icon was made us use
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Steve Jobs (English, Paperback, Isaacson Walter)
About the Book
Steve Jobs: The Exclusive Biography is based on more than forty interviews that he conducted over two years. These include discussions with more than a hundred family members, friends, adversaries, competitors, and colleagues. This book is the acclaimed, internationally best-selling biography of a business magnate, investor and co-founder of Apple Inc.
About the Author
Walter Isaacson is an American journalist, writer, and professor at Tulane University. He is also known for writing biographies of prominent personalities like Leonardo Da Vinci, Steve Jobs, Benjamin Franklin, Albert Einstein, and Henry Kissinger. In October 2014, Walter Isaacson published a book called The Innovators: How a Group of Inventors, Hackers, Geniuses, and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution, that was an insight into the various technological advancements, including the parallel developments of the Internet and the computer system. Walter Isaacson is also a member of the American Government. He was appointed as the member of the
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