Steve Jobs: The Exclusive Biography (Essais Et Documents)

by Walter Isaacson

From bestselling author Walter Isaacson comes the landmark biography of Apple co-founder Steve Jobs. In Steve Jobs: The Exclusive Biography, Isaacson provides an extraordinary account of Jobs' professional and personal life.

Drawn from three years of exclusive and unprecedented interviews Isaacson has conducted with Jobs as well as extensive interviews with Jobs' family members, key colleagues from Apple and its competitors, Steve Jobs: The Exclusive Biography is the definitive portrait of the greatest innovator of his generation.

• ISBN10: 1408703742
• ISBN13: 9781408703748
• Publish Date: 24 October 2011 (first published 1 January 2011)
• Publish Status: Active
• Publish Country: GB
• Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
• Imprint: Abacus
• Format: Hardcover
• Pages: 656
• Language: English

Reviews

[adamfortuna]

As biographies go, this one was a lot of fun. Unfortunately, nearly every anecdote was something I’d read before, but there was still much in Jobs Next and Pixar years that was great to learn about.

[mbtc]

This was an exhausting read and I didn't even read it, I listened to it on audiobook. The book was very well written and seemed to be very well researched. I loved Walter's way of writing about Jobs.

Jobs on the other hand had no redeeming qualities in my book. The people he lead do make nice products but there is no need to pummel people all the way to get that.

[clq]

I am by no means much of a fan of Apple or Apple-products. However, this was a really interesting read. There are some parts, or rather a specific chunk, of this book I found to be really boring, but it was more than worth going through for the sake of the rest. No matter what one may think of him, Steve Jobs was an extremely influential person in the consumer electronics-market. As well as giving what seems like a very honest description of the kind of person Steve Jobs was, this book also gives a fascinating insight in how Apple operates, why it does what it does, and how this has made the company so successful.

[MurderByDeath]

I don't read a lot of biographies, because frankly, very few people interest me enough to want to read about their lives. Because of this I can't really comment on the quality of this work as it compares to other, great biographies, except to say that I found the author to be fair; it was obvious to me that he strived to write an honest portrayal of a man who was by no means perfect, but managed to change the world for the better. I have always admired Steve Jobs passion for quality over profits and I am glad I read this book.

[g2pro]

Who has an apple product and didn't read this book?