American Sketches will be released on November 30, 2010 in Trade Paperback
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American Sketches will be released on November 24, 2009 in Hardcover, Compact Disk, eBook, eAudio
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American Sketches is now available in Hardcover, Compact Disk, eBook, eAudio
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Einstein is now available in eAudio
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Walter Isaacson's Books
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American SketchesBy bestselling biographer and journalist, a selective collection that illustrates his passage from school to journalist to illustrious biographer.Read More
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A Benjamin Franklin ReaderBENJAMIN FRANKLIN'S GREATEST WRITINGSEdited and Annotated by Walter IsaacsonSelected and annotated by the author of the acclaimed Benjamin Franklin: An...Read More -
Benjamin FranklinIn his New York Times bestselling biography, Walter Isaacson shows how the most fascinating founding father helped define our national character.Read More
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The Wise MenA captivating blend of personal biography and public drama, The Wise Men introduces the original best and brightest, leaders whose outsized...Read More
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SiliconValley.com, February 16, 2010
...Apple CEO Steve Jobs has tapped Walter Isaacson, the former editor of Time Magazine and former CEO of CNN, to write an authorized biography of his life, according to the New York Times...
Digital Media Wire, February 16, 2010
...San Francisco - Apple (NASD: AAPL) CEO Steve Jobs is collaborating with former Time managing editor Walter Isaacson on his first authorized biography, The New York Times reported. read more...
Business Insider, February 16, 2010
...How much is the authorized biography of Steve Jobs worth? Walter Isaacson can look forward to a $2 million to $6 million advance, according to a prominent non-fiction book agent specializing in business books. Nothing to sneeze at, but it's...
Forbes.com, February 16, 2010
...Apple Chief Steve Jobs is reportedly working with former Time magazine managing editor Walter Isaacson on an authorized biography. Credit...
Yahoo! News, February 16, 2010
...Steve Jobs is notoriously private, but that's slated to change. Jobs will work with biographer Walter Isaacson to publish an in-depth examination of the Apple founder's life, . But given Jobs' history of skirting issues and scoffing at previous...
MSN Money, February 16, 2010
...Apple (AAPL) CEO Steve jobs has agreed to collaborate with author Walter Isaacson on an authorized biography, the New York Times reports, citing 'two people briefed on the project.” Isaacson, a former managing editor of Time magazine, has written...
MacNN, February 16, 2010
...currently said to be in early planning, but set to cover the executive's entire lifespan. The writer, Walter Isaacson, has allegedly been invited to visit Jobs' childhood home. Isaacson is perhaps best known for writing bestselling biographies of Albert...
TechWhack, February 16, 2010
...The New York Times has reported that Walter Isaacson is working on a book on Apple co-founder Steve Jobs. The different thing about this book is that it is authorized by the man himself! Walter Isaacson is already...
Ilounge, February 16, 2010
...two people briefed on the project, the New York Times reports that Jobs has agreed to collaborate with Walter Isaacson, former managing editor of Time magazine, on the book. Still in the early planning stages, the book is said to cover Jobs’ entire...
Business Sheet, February 16, 2010
...Walter Isaacson is working on a Steve Jobs biography with help from Steve Jobs, Brad Stone at the New York Times reports . Walter was formerly a managing editor at Time magazine...
Cyber India Online, February 16, 2010
...Reports say that Walter Isaacson, the former managing editor of Time magazine, is writing it...
Huffington Post, February 16, 2010
...himself. Now Apple's chief executive is set to collaborate on an authorized biography, to be written by Walter Isaacson, the former managing editor of Time magazine, according to two people briefed on the project. More on Steve Jobs...
Raleigh News & Observer, January 18, 2010
...equation in the world, The story of Albert Einstein's annus mirabilis is an eye-popping science story. And Walter Isaacson's touching and exceptionally well-rendered biography of Einstein (1879-1955) captures the all of the excitement stirred up by those...
Medford Mail Tribune, January 3, 2010
...Isink into a well-worn easy chair with a cup of green tea and fall straightaway into Walter Isaacson's new book about Einstein. We're not in Medford any more; it's 1905, and I imagine that I'm riding alongside a beam of light with a...
Boston Globe, December 26, 2009
...Up, by Jayne Ann Krentz (Putnam) American Sketches: Great Leaders, Creative Thinkers, and Heroes of a Hurricane, by Walter Isaacson (Simon & Schuster) Yarn: Remembering the Way Home, by Kyoko Mori (Gemma) Pick of the week David Lampe-Wilson of...
PRWeb, December 18, 2009
...PRWEB) December 18, 2009 -- Steve Luxenbergs Annies Ghosts: A Journey Into a Family Secret, hailed by author Walter Isaacson as a gripping detective story and a haunting memoir, won national and regional honors this month. The Washington Post book...
Asbury Park Press, December 13, 2009
...differences and the ideological struggle he had with Thomas Jefferson. EINSTEIN: THE LIFE OF A GENIUS t by Walter Isaacson. HarperCollins, $40. With an eclectic collection of memorabilia facsimiles, this all-about-Einstein tome — and it's heavy — is...
STLtoday.com, December 13, 2009
...and white scenes with the red flesh of a fresh meal. ‘Einstein: The Life of a Genius’ By Walter Isaacson (Collins Design, 94 pages, $40) This interesting presentation of the genius’ life and work includes fascinating fold-out facsimiles of letters...
SC Now, December 9, 2009
...will be few novels this year as good as this one. Einstein: the Life of a Genius, by Walter Isaacson: This is the first full biography of Albert Einstein since all of his papers have become available. His fascinating story is a testament to the...
NOLA Live, December 7, 2009
...Walter Isaacson's author photo for 'American Sketches' invokes his New Orleans roots. There he stands, leaning on the wrought-iron stair rail of his family home on Napoleon Avenue, with the...
San Jose Mercury News, November 25, 2009
...his iconic equation, the museum-like tidbits found between the covers of 'Einstein: The Life of a Genius' by Walter Isaacson (Collins Design/HarperCollins, 97 pp., list price $40) make for a fun approach to the physicist's accomplishments. The most...
San Jose Mercury News, November 25, 2009
...his iconic equation, the museum-like tidbits found between the covers of 'Einstein: The Life of a Genius' by Walter Isaacson (Collins Design/HarperCollins, 97 pp., list price $40) make for a fun approach to the physicist's accomplishments. The most...
Washington Post, November 17, 2009
...to write history, at least the kind of history that people want to read. After all, David McCullough, Walter Isaacson, Jon Meacham and other popular historians sell hundreds of thousands of books. If they can do it, why can't the academic historians...
Newsvine, November 7, 2009
...are experts in their respective fields, Lawrence Lessig, who Lessig, who makes some insightful remarks about Google, and Walter Isaacson are also both quoted on the book jacket praising this book. Auletta, as is often the case in his writing and report,...
ChicoER.com, October 8, 2009
...stretch. There are traditional biographies about famous people, such as the lively 'Einstein: His Life and Universe,' by Walter Isaacson, which reminds us that geniuses are human. There are biographical accounts of people who helped changed the course of...
American Spectator, September 17, 2009
...the gravitational field with the ether, among other things, by referring to the latter as the gravitational ether." Walter Isaacson, in his best-selling biography, also discusses Einstein's revival of the ether, as very few writers have done. ...
NOLA Live, September 16, 2009
...A.S. Byatt, Michael Connelly, Patricia Cornwell, Gail Collins, E.L. Doctorow, Dave Eggers, Gail Godwin, John Irving, Walter Isaacson, Garrison Keillor, Stephen King, Jon Krakauer, Audrey Niffenegger and Philip Roth. The local scene is equally vibrant,...
NOLA Live, September 16, 2009
...A.S. Byatt, Michael Connelly, Patricia Cornwell, Gail Collins, E.L. Doctorow, Dave Eggers, Gail Godwin, John Irving, Walter Isaacson, Garrison Keillor, Stephen King, Jon Krakauer, Audrey Niffenegger and Philip Roth. The local scene is equally vibrant,...
WBRZ, July 31, 2009
...In Characters Grit issue a marvelous piece on Albert Einstein by former New Orleans resident and Einstein biographer Walter Isaacson. Isaacson makes the point that Einstein succeeded not only because of his native intelligence, but also because he was...
Examiner.com, June 25, 2009
...will be Chris Van Allsburg, author of Jumanji and The Polar Express; poet Robert Pinsky; former CNN chairman Walter Isaacson; Dennis Lehane, author of Mystic River; and documentary filmmaker Ken Burns. The Boston Book Festival is being sponsored by State...
New York Observer, May 22, 2009
...published last May by HarperCollins. Mr. Obama?who was joined on the back of the jacket by Robert Caro, Walter Isaacson, Tom Brokaw and Jon Meacham?called Mr. Sorensen?s book ?gripping? and ?candid,? and praised its author for inspiring a...
The Detroit Free Press, May 3, 2009
...a memoir that pushes the journalistic envelope ... fascinating' (Helen Epstein); 'a gripping detective story and a haunting memoir' (Walter Isaacson). On the surface, it is a book about secrets. Luxenberg, a senior editor of the Washington Post, grew up...
Austin Daily Herald, April 15, 2009
...Striving for peace and preparing for war are incompatible with each other.? ? Einstein The book ?Einstein? by Walter Isaacson is a book I think ought to be required reading. It?s a book about Einstein?s life and universe. They have it at...
Leader.co.za, April 4, 2009
...alone have not covered their high fixed costs. A February Time magazine cover story by longtime print journalist Walter Isaacson titled, 'How to Save Your Newspaper,' takes on the threat of 'freeconomics' squarely. 'This is not a business model that...
The Biz of Life, December 21, 2009
...F. A. Hayek Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal , Ayn Rand John Adams , David McCullough Benjamin Franklin: An American Life , Walter Isaacson Free to Choose: A Personal Statement , Milton and Rose Friedman The Federalist Papers , Hamilton, Madison, Jay, et....
The Official Buckhead Church Blog, December 16, 2009
...Redwing and the Lost Heroes of SEAL Team 10 by Marcus Luttrell. Einstein: His Life and Universe by Walter Isaacson. How the Mighty Fall: And Why Some Companies Never Give In by Jim Collins. Inside Steve’s Brain by Leander Kahney. 10. Manhunt: The...
PAXALLES, November 23, 2009
...Laura Ingraham hosted Walter Isaacson on his new book American Sketches: Great Leaders, Creative Thinkers, and Heroes of a Hurricane . Isaacson said it isn't just braqins, but creativity and self-starting and that this...
World Muslim Congress, September 15, 2009
...East interacts with the world. This is a wonderful combination of historical analysis and insightful reporting." ¯Walter Isaacson, CEO of the Aspen Institute and author of Kissinger: A Biography "Vali Nasr has spent a lifetime thinking, debating,...
TimHowey.Com, August 17, 2009
...try it. Here's what I checked out from the library... Ben Franklin: An American Life by Walter Isaacson His Excellency: George Washington by Joseph Ellis John Adams by David McCullough These books were great! They ended up making the time fly. ...
ricklibrarian, August 12, 2009
...Tyler (Ecco, November) House of Versace by Deborah Ball (Crown, December) Einstein Again What more can there be? Walter Isaacson's 2007 biography Einstein: His Life and Universe is a big book that seems to cover the physicist's life in great detail. But...
I Dream of Genea(logy), August 11, 2009
...or the Holocaust. I'm a couple of chapters into " Benjamin Franklin: An American Life " by Walter Isaacson and so far I'm loving it. It's an interesting autobiography about an amazing character combined with a lot of history and great story telling. I...
The Inverse Square Blog, June 11, 2009
...seen. You can see here what, in alphabetical order, David Bodanis , Junot Díaz , Timothy Ferris , Brian Greene , Walter Isaacson , Sylvia Nasar , and Neal Stephenson , had to say about the book in advance of publication. Also in the next post: do...
mediabistro.com: FishBowlDC, May 27, 2009
...WaPo Associate Editor Steve Luxenberg , author of Annie's Ghosts:A Journey Into a Family Secret. Moderated by Walter Isaacson President and CEO, The Aspen Institute Monday, June 8, 2009 12:00 pm The Aspen Institute One Dupont Circle, NW, Suite 700,...
Bill Peschel, May 20, 2009
...Point, Ill., 1890; Margery Allingham, mystery author, London, 1904; Samuel Selvon, novelist, short-story writer, Trinidad, West Indies, 1923; Walter Isaacson, journalist, author, New Orleans, La., 1952. Died: Mary Lamb, author, London, 1847; John...
Twitter / timoreilly, May 9, 2009
...@ carlmalamud I could aspire to be like Franklin :-) (Really enjoying Walter Isaacson's biography of Franklin right now.) 41 minutes ago from twhirl in reply to carlmalamud timoreilly Tim O'Reilly...
The Sebastian Buhai Blog, April 10, 2009
...the Dismal Science " (see also earlier , 2nd bullet point). " Einstein: His Life and Universe ", by Walter Isaacson. Probably the best biography on Einstein as yet. The author is, inter alia, using autobiographical material only recently available from...
Reading Group Guides Blog, April 3, 2009
...And More... Austenland by Shannon Hale The Book Thief by Markus Zusak Einstein: His Life and Universe by Walter Isaacson The Girls by Lori Lansens The Help by Kathryn Stockett I See You Everywhere by Julia Glass The Invisible Wall: A Love Story that...
A Model Media Ecologist, March 23, 2009
...their business model for the collection and dissemination of information will save the American republic. Thus there are Walter Isaacson over at Time Magazine , David Lazarus of the LA Times and David Carr of the New York Times (among many others) who...
