Walter Isaacson

Visionääri vai arvaamaton öykkäri?” Niille, joita olen loukannut, haluan sanoa vain, että minä keksin uudestaan sähköauton ja aion lähettää ihmisiä avaruusaluksella Marsiin. Luulitteko, että olisin vain tavallinen rento tyyppi?” Kaikilla on mielipide Elon Muskista, mutta mikä hän on miehiään? Sen paljastaa palkitun tietokirjailijan Walter Isaacsonin kattava elämäkerta Muskista, yhdestä aikamme merkittävimmästä ihmisestä. Hänen perustamansa sähköautoyhtiö Tesla mullisti autoilun, SpaceX avaruusmatkailun, ja lukuisilla lennokkailla innovaatioillaan, esimerkiksi aivoihin asennettavalla mikrosirulla, Musk aikoo mullistaa ihmiselämän sellaisena kuin sen tunnemme. Musk varttui rikkinäisessä kodissa Etelä-Afrikassa, muutti 17-vuotiaana Kanadaan, teki miljoonia PayPalilla ja perusti lopulta Teslan. Viime ajat Musk on pysynyt otsikoissa Twitterin uutena, äkkivääränä omistajana. Elämäkerturi Isaacson on seurannut Muskia kahden vuoden ajan ja päässyt niin ystävien kuin vihamiesten puheille. Tuloksena on vauhdikas ja syvällinen henkilökuva, joka paljastaa mikä Muskia ajaa eteenpäin ja mikä on hänen menestyksensä salaisuus. Walter Isaacson (s. 1952) on yhdysvaltalainen kirjailija ja journalisti, joka on kirjoittanut suositut elämäkerrat muun muassa Steve Jobsista, Albert Einsteinista ja Leonardo da Vincistä. Pitkän uransa aikana hän on työskennellyt muun muassa CNN-mediayhtiön toimitusjohtajana ja Time-lehden vastaavana päätoimittajana.

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.

From the author of Steve Jobs and other bestselling biographies, this is the astonishingly intimate story of Elon Musk, the most fascinating and controversial innovator of our era-a rule-breaking visionary who helped to lead the world into the era of electric vehicles, private space exploration, and artificial intelligence. Oh, and took over Twitter. When Elon Musk was a kid in South Africa, he was regularly beaten by bullies. One day a group pushed him down some concrete steps and kicked him until his face was a swollen ball of flesh. He was in the hospital for a week. But the physical scars were minor compared to the emotional ones inflicted by his father, an engineer, rogue, and charismatic fantasist. His father's impact on his psyche would linger. He developed into a tough yet vulnerable man-child, prone to abrupt Jekyll-and-Hyde mood swings, with an exceedingly high tolerance for risk, a craving for drama, an epic sense of mission, and a maniacal intensity that was callous and at times destructive. At the beginning of 2022-after a year marked by SpaceX launching thirty-one rockets into orbit, Tesla selling a million cars, and him becoming the richest man on earth-Musk spoke ruefully about his compulsion to stir up dramas. "I need to shift my mindset away from being in crisis mode, which it has been for about fourteen years now, or arguably most of my life," he said. It was a wistful comment, not a New Year's resolution. Even as he said it, he was secretly buying up shares of Twitter, the world's ultimate playground. Over the years, whenever he was in a dark place, his mind went back to being bullied on the playground. Now he had the chance to own the playground. For two years, Isaacson shadowed Musk, attended his meetings, walked his factories with him, and spent hours interviewing him, his family, friends, coworkers, and adversaries. The result is the revealing inside story, filled with amazing tales of triumphs and turmoil, that addresses the question: are the demons that drive Musk also what it takes to drive innovation and progress?

The first full biography of Albert Einstein since all of his papers have become available -- a fully realised portrait of this extraordinary human being, and great genius.

An extraordinary book which gives us a unique insight into the life and thinking of the man who has single-handedly transformed the way we live today

#1 New York Times non-fiction bestseller #2 Sunday Times non-fiction bestsellerSHORTLISTED FOR THE FINANCIAL TIMES BUSINESS BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARDCHOSEN AS A BOOK OF THE YEAR BY APPLE, AMAZON, THE TIMES AND FINANCIAL TIMESWalter Isaacson’s biography of Elon Musk offers the most intimate, complete and revelatory portrait of the most fascinating and controversial innovator in the world. For two years, Isaacson had unprecedented access to Musk, his workplaces, his family, friends, coworkers and adversaries – nothing was off-limits. Musk’s journey from humble beginnings to one of the wealthiest people on the planet is a thrilling, mind-bending story and nobody could tell it better. Filled with amazing tales of triumph and turmoil, and lessons about leadership and business, it ultimately addresses the question everyone wants to ask: why is Elon Musk so successful? This book includes over 100 integrated black and white images.

Baseret på mere end fyrre interviews med Steve Jobs selv og en lang række samtaler med familie, venner, modstandere, konkurrenter og kolleger har Walter Isaacson skrevet et hudløst og nuanceret portræt af Steve Jobs' intense og ekstraordinære liv. Biografien giver indblik i det enestående og solide brand, som Jobs har skabt omkring Apple – og ikke mindst sig selv. Walter Isaacson går bag om brandet og skriver ærligt om Steve Jobs’ smittende kreativitet og engagement, men også om hvordan han kæmpede med perfektionisme og et overdrevent behov for kontrol. Det er en fortælling, som både er til inspiration og advarsel, når Walter Isaacson også forholder sig til de omkostninger, det har haft for Steve Jobs at revolutionere tech-industrien med hans kompromisløse tilgang og innovative designs. Walter Isaacson (f. 1952) er professor i historie, journalist samt forfatter og er især kendt for at være en af vor tids største biografister med fokus på at portrættere visionære og innovative personligheder, der har sat deres præg på verden. Walter Isaacson står bl.a. bag den fulde biografi om Albert Einstein (2007) og senest den længeventede biografi om Elon Musk (2023).

Forfatteren af Steve Jobs og andre storsælgende biografier går tæt på en af vor tids mest fascinerende og kontroversielle opfindere – Elon Musk, en grænseoverskridende visionær, som har bragt verden ind i en æra af elbiler, privat rumforskning og kunstig intelligens. Og nå ja, så opkøbte han også Twitter. Walter Isaacson har fulgt Musk gennem to år, gået gennem hans fabrikker sammen med ham og brugt mange timer på at interviewe både ham selv og hans familie, venner, arbejdskolleger og fjender. Resultatet er blevet en fyldestgørende biografi om en excentrisk personlighed, der deler vandene med sin radikale risikovillighed og i sidste ende rejser spørgsmålet: Er Musks dæmoner også en forudsætning for nytænkning og fremskridt? Walter Isaacson (f. 1952) er professor i historie, journalist samt forfatter og er især kendt for at være en af vor tids største biografister med fokus på at portrættere visionære og innovative personligheder, der har sat deres præg på verden. Walter Isaacson står bl.a. bag den fulde biografi om Albert Einstein (2007) og den ikoniske biografi om Steve Jobs (2011), som er baseret på unikke interviews med Steve Jobs selv.

V osnovu etoj biografii legli besedy s samim Stivom Dzhobsom, a takzhe s ego rodstvennikami, druzjami, vragami, sopernikami i kollegami. Dzhobs nikak ne kontroliroval avtora. On otkrovenno otvechal na vse voprosy i zhdal takoj zhe chestnosti ot ostalnykh. Eto rasskaz o zhizni, polnoj padenij i vzletov, o silnom cheloveke i talantlivom biznesmene, kotoryj odnim iz pervykh ponjal: chtoby dobitsja uspekha v XXI veke, nuzhno soedinit kreativnost i tekhnologii. "Mne nikogda ne popadalos bolee dejstvennogo instrumenta, pomogajuschego delat vybor v vazhnye momenty zhizni, chem soznanie, chto ja skoro umru. Potomu chto pochti vsjo - ozhidanija okruzhajuschikh, gordost, bojazn popast v nelovkoe polozhenie ili poterpet neudachu - vse eti veschi prosto otstupajut pered litsom smerti, i ostaetsja tolko to, chto dejstvitelno vazhno". Stiv Dzhobs Soosnovatel i mnogoletnij rukovoditel kompanii Apple, glavnyj generator idej, zadavavshij napravlenie vsej dejatelnosti korporatsii, Stiv Dzhobs navsegda izmenil mir tsifrovykh tekhnologij. Eta kniga rasskazyvaet o zhizni sozdatelja mira Apple, stavshego odnim iz simvolov tekhnologicheskogo progressa i tsifrovoj revoljutsii. V knigu voshlo bolee 40 intervju Stiva Dzhobsa s ego biografom Uolterom Ajzeksonom, a takzhe vospominanija blizkikh i znavshikh ego ljudej. Perevodchik: Gorjanina Darja, Poleschuk Julija, Cherednichenko A., Tsyrulnikova A. Redaktor: Gornostaeva VarvaraKhudozhnik: Bondarenko Andrej

Welcome to Madison Park, a small community in Alabama founded by freed slaves in 1880. And meet Eric Motley, a native son who came of age in this remarkable place where constant lessons in self-determination, hope, and unceasing belief in the American dream taught him everything he needed for his journey to the Oval Office as a special assistant to President George W. Bush. Eric grew up among people whose belief was to "give" and never turn away from your neighbor's need. There was Aunt Shine, the goodly matriarch who cared so much about young Motley's schooling that she would stand up in a crowded church and announce Eric's progress or his shortcomings. There was Old Man Salery, who secretly siphoned gasoline from his beat-up car into the Motleys' tank at night. There were Motley's grandparents, who bought books for Eric they couldn't afford, spending the last of their seed money. And there was Reverend Brinkley, a man of enormous faith and simple living. It was said that whenever the Reverend came your way, light abounded. Life in Madison Park wasn't always easy or fair, and Motley reveals personal and heartbreaking stories of racial injustice and segregation. But Eric shows how the community taught him everything he needed to know about love and faith. This charming, engaging, and deeply inspiring memoir will help you remember that we can create a world of shared values based on love and hope. It is a story that reveals the amazing power of faith in God and each other. If you're in search of hope during troubled times, look no further than Madison Park.

The author of the acclaimed bestsellers Benjamin Franklin, Einstein, and Steve Jobs delivers an engrossing biography of Leonardo da Vinci, the worldâ??s most creative genius.

The author of the massively bestselling Steve Jobs biography writes the whole history of the digital age

The Wise Men introduces the original brightest and best, leaders whose outsized personalities and actions brought order to postwar chaos: Averell Harriman, freewheeling diplomat and Roosevelt’s special envoy to Churchill and Stalin; Dean Acheson, the secretary of state who was more responsible for the Truman Doctrine than Truman and for the Marshall Plan than General Marshall; George Kennan, author of Containment; Robert Lovett, assistant secretary of war, undersecretary of state, and secretary of defense during the Cold War; John McCloy, one of the nation’s most influential private citizens; and Charles Bohlen, adroit diplomat and ambassador to the Soviet Union.

Steve Jobs, i-konenDen egensinnige kreatören, den maniske perfektionisten. Vi kände honom som den store uppfinnaren, den som revolutionerat vårt sätt att umgås och förhålla oss till världen och totalt förändrat vårt vardagsliv. Men vem var han? Och hur kom han att bli till den ikon han är idag? Vilka var hans drivkrafter? Vilka tankar och människor påverkade honom, stöttade honom, bjöd honom motstånd? För första gången berättar Steve Jobs om sitt liv och sitt arbete. Under flera års tid och i över fyrtio intervjuer har Steve Jobs berättat öppenhjärtigt för vetenskapshistorikern Walter Isaacson om sin uppväxt, sitt privatliv och sin karriär. Han har inga skäl kvar att dölja någonting. Här berättar han allt. Det här är historien om en man som mer än någon annan personifierar vår tid, en symbol för den mänskliga kreativiteten och ett synsätt där form och innehåll är lika viktiga. Steve Jobs har, med sitt driv och sin ständiga jakt på perfektion, totalt revolutionerat vår värld och vårt sätt att leva. Han släppte in datorn i hemmet, gav den tecknade filmen en renässans, stöpte i ett enda slag om musikindustrin med sin i-Pod och med i-Phonen förvandlade han telefonen till ett oumbärligt vardagsredskap -- och en väldigt kul leksak. Samtidigt. Steve Jobs avled i oktober 2011, 56 år gammal.

The #1 New York Times and global bestseller from Walter Isaacson--the acclaimed author of Steve Jobs, Einstein: His Life and World, Benjamin Franklin, and Leonardo da Vinci--is the astonishingly intimate story of the most fascinating, controversial innovator of modern times. For two years, Isaacson shadowed Elon Musk as he executed his vision for electric vehicles at Tesla, space exploration with SpaceX, the AI revolution, and the takeover of Twitter and its conversion to X. The result is the definitive portrait of the mercurial pioneer that offers clues to his political instincts, future ambitions, and overall worldview. When Elon Musk was a kid in South Africa, he was regularly beaten by bullies. One day a group pushed him down some concrete steps and kicked him until his face was a swollen ball of flesh. He was in the hospital for a week. But the physical scars were minor compared to the emotional ones inflicted by his father, an engineer, rogue, and charismatic fantasist. His father's impact on his psyche would linger. He developed into a tough yet vulnerable man-child, prone to abrupt Jekyll-and-Hyde mood swings, with an exceedingly high tolerance for risk, a craving for drama, an epic sense of mission, and a maniacal intensity that was callous and at times destructive. At the beginning of 2022--after a year marked by SpaceX launching thirty-one rockets into orbit, Tesla selling a million cars, and him becoming the richest man on earth--Musk spoke ruefully about his compulsion to stir up dramas. "I need to shift my mindset away from being in crisis mode, which it has been for about fourteen years now, or arguably most of my life," he said. It was a wistful comment, not a New Year's resolution. Even as he said it, he was secretly buying up shares of Twitter, the world's ultimate playground. Over the years, whenever he was in a dark place, his mind went back to being bullied on the playground. Now he had the chance to own the playground. For two years, Isaacson shadowed Musk, attended his meetings, walked his factories with him, and spent hours interviewing him, his family, friends, coworkers, and adversaries. The result is the revealing inside story, filled with amazing tales of triumphs and turmoil, that addresses the question: are the demons that drive Musk also what it takes to drive innovation and progress?

Leonardo da Vinci har gjort två av världshistoriens mest berömda målningar, Nattvarden och Mona Lisa, men i sina egna ögon var han lika mycket vetenskapsman som konstnär. Han var ständigt nyfiken, och med en passion som gränsade till besatthet utförde han nyskapande studier av människans anatomi, fossiler, fåglar, flygmaskiner och växter. Hur bar han sig åt? Varifrån fick han sin inspiration? Utifrån tusentals sidor av Leonardo da Vincis fantastiska anteckningar och skisser, samt nya upptäckter om hans liv och verk, har Walter Isaacson skrivit en biografi om historiens mest kreativa geni. Fram träder bilden av en man som av sin samtid betraktades som udda han var gay, vänsterhänt, vegetarian, född utom äktenskapet men vars fantasi och uppfinningsrikedom gick utöver det vanliga. Isaacson menar att även vi som lever idag kan lära av Da Vinci: att inte bara ta emot den kunskap som serveras oss, att vilja ifrågasätta. Att våga tänka annorlunda.

Following his blockbuster biography of Steve Jobs, Walter Isaacson's New York Times bestselling and critically acclaimed The Innovators is a "riveting, propulsive, and at times deeply moving" (The Atlantic) story of the people who cre