Walter Isaacson
Contributor at Freelance
Author of bios of Elon Musk, Jennifer Doudna, Leonardo da Vinci, Ben Franklin, Einstein, Steve Jobs. Professor @Tulane. Formerly @Time, @CNN, & @Aspeninstitute
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Mar 26, 2025 |
lrb.co.uk | Kate Conger |Ryan Mac |Walter Isaacson |Deborah Friedell
Elon Musk bought Twitter because he loved it. He loved tweeting poop emojis at dawn; he loved tweeting masturbation jokes at dusk. He loved that he had more Twitter followers than almost anyone else, though it galled that Barack Obama and Justin Bieber had more. While other celebrity social media accounts were often so sanitised that they smelled of chlorine – ‘Happy Tuesday everybody! Stay positive!’ – at least no one could claim that @elonmusk had ever been focus-grouped.
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Mar 18, 2025 |
kirkusreviews.com | Dalton Conley |Omar El Akkad |Walter Isaacson
The latest on nature versus nurture may unsettle readers at the extremes but will entertain them all. Figuring out who we are—and who we will become. Belief in the superiority of people like you can be deeply satisfying. Nazism gave that a bad reputation, but it revived with the 1994 bestseller The Bell Curve, whose authors maintained that people achieve if they inherit abilities that nonachievers and minorities lack.
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Mar 14, 2025 |
kathmandupost.com | Walter Isaacson |Michael Siddhi
At the D8 Conference, hosted by The Wall Street Journal in June 2010, Steve Jobs described how Apple’s organisational structure operated like a startup despite being one of the largest companies in the world. This interview marked one of his last major public appearances before his demise.
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Mar 11, 2025 |
kirkusreviews.com | Thor Hanson |Amy Tan |Walter Isaacson
Far from the first natural history of the backyard, but a good one. Exploring the wild world behind his house. Conservation biologist Hanson lives in the Pacific Northwest, so most of his property is a temperate rain forest, but its rich biome serves him well.
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Mar 11, 2025 |
kirkusreviews.com | Jamieson Webster |Walter Isaacson |Daniel Kahneman
Alternately admiring and critical, unvarnished, and a closely detailed account of a troubled innovator. A warts-and-all portrait of the famed techno-entrepreneur—and the warts are nearly beyond counting. To call Elon Musk (b. 1971) “mercurial” is to undervalue the term; to call him a genius is incorrect. Instead, Musk has a gift for leveraging the genius of others in order to make things work.
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