Walter Isaacson's biography Steve Jobs beyond the legend

Steve Jobs is the authorized biography of Apple co-founder Steve Jobs, written by Walter Isaacson at Jobs's request and released in the United States by Simon & Schuster in 2011, 19 days after Jobs's death. How can a candid portrait help readers understand the person beyond the legend? The lessons consider how a more human account can shape understanding of a life and legacy.

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The reading path

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   Walter Isaacson's biography Steve Jobs · Wikipedia · 8 min read

   A number of Steve Jobs's family and close colleagues, including Laurene Powell Jobs, Tim Cook and Jony Ive, expressed disapproval of Walter Isaacson's biography Steve Jobs. Cook remarked that the biography did Jobs "a tremendous disservice" and that "it didn't capture the person." The front cover of Walter Isaacson's biography Steve Jobs uses a photograph of Steve Jobs commissioned by Fortune magazine in 2006 for a portfolio of powerful people, a portrait Watson intended to show that Jobs was smart. Albert Watson took the photograph. The working title of Walter Isaacson's biography Steve Jobs, iSteve: The Book of Jobs, was chosen by publisher Simon & Schuster's publicity department. Isaacson persuaded the publisher to change it after his wife and daughter reportedly thought it was "too cutesy".

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   Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson - A Review · Soulo · 3 min read

   Walter Isaacson's biography "Steve Jobs" portrays Steve Jobs's entire life in an as unadulterated form as possible, the review says. The review calls it the most accurate and genuine account of one of the greatest visionaries of the 21st century.

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   Frank Rose on Apple Under Steve Jobs | Big Think · YouTube · 3 min watch

   Frank Rose discusses Steve Jobs's return to Apple as an adviser, his rise to CEO, and how he reorganized the company. Rose says Apple became profitable again within months and began making products that captured people's imaginations.

4. Book
   

   Steve Jobs · Bookshop.org

   Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson reports on friends, foes, and colleagues' unvarnished views of the passions, perfectionism, and compulsion for control that shaped Jobs's business approach and products. Isaacson describes the tale as instructive and cautionary, with lessons about innovation, character, leadership, and values.

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