American Sketches will be released on November 24, 2009 in Hardcover, Compact Disk, eBook, eAudio
about 4 hours ago
Audio Excerpt:
American SketchesNov 03, 2009
Author Appearances have been announced:
Find Walter Isaacson appearancesOct 30, 2009
Author Appearances have been announced:
Find Walter Isaacson appearancesOct 29, 2009
Excerpt:
Introduction from American SketchesOct 28, 2009
Excerpt:
Introduction from KissingerAug 05, 2009
Excerpt:
Table of Contents from KissingerFeb 13, 2009
Einstein is now available in eAudio
Nov 10, 2008
Benjamin Franklin is now available in eAudio
Nov 10, 2008
Einstein will be released on May 13, 2008 in Trade Paperback
May 13, 2008
Einstein is now available in Trade Paperback
May 13, 2008
Einstein is now available in Trade Paperback
May 13, 2008
Einstein will be released on May 13, 2008 in
May 13, 2008
Einstein is now available in
May 13, 2008
Einstein will be released on April 10, 2007 in Hardcover
Apr 10, 2007
Einstein is now available in Hardcover
Apr 10, 2007
Einstein will be released on April 10, 2007 in Compact Disk
Apr 10, 2007
Einstein is now available in Compact Disk
Apr 10, 2007
Einstein will be released on April 10, 2007 in eAudio
Apr 10, 2007
Einstein is now available in eAudio
Apr 10, 2007
Einstein will be released on April 10, 2007 in eBook
Apr 10, 2007
Einstein is now available in eBook
Apr 10, 2007
Einstein will be released on April 10, 2007 in Compact Disk
Apr 10, 2007
Einstein is now available in Compact Disk
Apr 10, 2007
Einstein will be released on April 10, 2007 in eAudio
Apr 10, 2007
Einstein is now available in eAudio
Apr 10, 2007
Einstein will be released on April 10, 2007 in
Apr 10, 2007
Einstein is now available in
Apr 10, 2007
Einstein will be released on April 10, 2007 in
Apr 10, 2007
Einstein is now available in
Apr 10, 2007
Einstein will be released on April 10, 2007 in
Apr 10, 2007
Einstein is now available in
Apr 10, 2007
Einstein will be released on April 10, 2007 in
Apr 10, 2007
Einstein is now available in
Apr 10, 2007
Einstein will be released on April 10, 2007 in
Apr 10, 2007
Einstein is now available in
Apr 10, 2007
Einstein will be released on April 10, 2007 in
Apr 10, 2007
Einstein is now available in
Apr 10, 2007
Benjamin Franklin will be released on August 01, 2006 in eAudio
Aug 01, 2006
Benjamin Franklin is now available in eAudio
Aug 01, 2006
Kissinger will be released on September 27, 2005 in Trade Paperback
Sep 27, 2005
Kissinger is now available in Trade Paperback
Sep 27, 2005
Kissinger will be released on September 27, 2005 in
Sep 27, 2005
Kissinger is now available in
Sep 27, 2005
A Benjamin Franklin Reader will be released on June 15, 2005 in eBook
Jun 15, 2005
A Benjamin Franklin Reader is now available in eBook
Jun 15, 2005
A Benjamin Franklin Reader will be released on June 15, 2005 in
Jun 15, 2005
A Benjamin Franklin Reader is now available in
Jun 15, 2005
A Benjamin Franklin Reader will be released on May 31, 2005 in Trade Paperback
May 31, 2005
A Benjamin Franklin Reader is now available in Trade Paperback
May 31, 2005
A Benjamin Franklin Reader will be released on May 31, 2005 in
May 31, 2005
A Benjamin Franklin Reader is now available in
May 31, 2005
Benjamin Franklin will be released on May 04, 2004 in Trade Paperback
May 04, 2004
Benjamin Franklin is now available in Trade Paperback
May 04, 2004
Benjamin Franklin will be released on May 04, 2004 in
May 04, 2004
Benjamin Franklin is now available in
May 04, 2004
Benjamin Franklin will be released on July 31, 2003 in eBook
Jul 31, 2003
Benjamin Franklin is now available in eBook
Jul 31, 2003
Benjamin Franklin will be released on July 01, 2003 in Hardcover
Jul 01, 2003
Benjamin Franklin is now available in Hardcover
Jul 01, 2003
Benjamin Franklin will be released on July 01, 2003 in Compact Disk
Jul 01, 2003
Benjamin Franklin is now available in Compact Disk
Jul 01, 2003
Benjamin Franklin will be released on July 01, 2003 in
Jul 01, 2003
Benjamin Franklin is now available in
Jul 01, 2003
Benjamin Franklin will be released on July 01, 2003 in
Jul 01, 2003
Benjamin Franklin is now available in
Jul 01, 2003
Benjamin Franklin will be released on July 01, 2003 in
Jul 01, 2003
Benjamin Franklin is now available in
Jul 01, 2003
Benjamin Franklin will be released on July 01, 2003 in
Jul 01, 2003
Benjamin Franklin is now available in
Jul 01, 2003
The Wise Men will be released on June 04, 1997 in Trade Paperback
Jun 04, 1997
The Wise Men is now available in Trade Paperback
Jun 04, 1997
The Wise Men will be released on June 04, 1997 in
Jun 04, 1997
The Wise Men is now available in
Jun 04, 1997
Excerpt:
Table of Contents from KissingerPrior to Dec 19, 2008
Excerpt:
Table of Contents from A Benjamin Franklin ReaderPrior to Dec 19, 2008
Excerpt:
Table of Contents from EinsteinPrior to Dec 19, 2008
Excerpt:
Table of Contents from Benjamin FranklinPrior to Dec 19, 2008
Walter Isaacson's Books
-
American SketchesBy bestselling biographer and journalist, a selective collection that illustrates his passage from school to journalist to illustrious biographer.Read More -
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
-
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
Displaying 1 of
Authors on the Web
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...
Khaleej Times, March 17, 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 makes...
Canadian Community Newspapers Association, March 14, 2009
...When I first saw veteran journalist Walter Isaacson's Time magazine cover story 'How To Save Your Newspaper?A Modest Proposal,' I must confess I expected it to be a satire. After all, the title was clearly a...
Telegraph, March 3, 2009
...dictators younger years; it was thoroughly researched and I really enjoyed it. Im about to begin Einstein by Walter Isaacson...
Times Higher Education Supplement, February 26, 2009
...for publishing too much and too early in their careers'. Other suggestions, equally dramatic, are being seriously discussed. Walter Isaacson, editor of Time magazine, argued in a recent cover story, 'How to Save Your Newspaper', for charging online...
LankaWeb, February 25, 2009
...to the recent Time cover story titled 'How to save your newspaper: A modest proposal,' in which writer Walter Isaacson contends that unless the media start charging a modest fee for accessing online news content [Brother, can you spare a dime?],...
Seeking Alpha, February 8, 2009
...add themselves to this chorus are Stu Bykofsky of the Philadelphia Daily News and veteran journalist and author Walter Isaacson, writing in Time magazine. Bykofsky wrote a piece that managed to hit pretty much every highlight (or lowlight) of the...
North County Times, January 17, 2009
...RIVERSIDE ---- Walter Isaacson, a former chairman and CEO of CNN and former managing editor of Time, will give the 41st annual Hays Press-Enterprise Lecture on Feb. 4 at UC Riverside. The lecture...
Louisville Courier-Journal, January 12, 2009
...of scientists. For instance, your child might be interested in the biography 'Einstein: His Life and Universe' by Walter Isaacson. Create a hurricane in a bottle, make an egg float in water and do other simple, fun experiments at home. You could get...
Sunday Gazette-Mail, January 11, 2009
...Virginia University Festival of Ideas will bring a major scholar to Charleston for a free public lecture. Author-historian Walter Isaacson - former managing editor of Time magazine and former CEO of CNN - is to speak at 7:30 p.m. March 10 at the Clay...
Riverside Press Enterprise, December 20, 2008
...Walter Isaacson, former CEO of CNN and managing editor of Time magazine, will give the Hays Press-Enterprise Lecture on Feb. 4 at UC Riverside. The 41st annual lecture, which honors former...
Charleston Daily Mail, December 15, 2008
...Festival of Ideas, inspired by the 200th birthday of Charles Darwin. Speakers for the spring include best-selling author Walter Isaacson, professor Cornel West, PBS anchor Gwen Ifill and paleontologist Meave Leakey. But interim WVU President Peter...
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...
Literary Kicks, March 11, 2009
...Time Inc. New Media was an actual division of the company, with a heavyweight management team led by Walter Isaacson, author of a recent biography of Henry Kissinger. Fox’s acquisition of Delphi, on the other hand, had gotten no press, and it was...
DENVER STIFFS - Defending the sovereignty of Nugge, February 26, 2009
...News ? The future of newspapers has been much discussed lately with papers downsizing or shutting down completely, Walter Isaacson proposing a micropayment / iPod type model (which will never happen) and the new Amazon Kindle being looked upon as a...
Amazon.com Book Case, February 24, 2009
...of him as a husband, father, and friend is fragmentary at best. With Einstein: His Life and Universe , Walter Isaacson (author of the bestselling biographies Benjamin Franklin and Kissinger ) brings Einstein's experience of life, love, and intellectual...
Newspaper Death Watch, February 16, 2009
...Charlie Rose convenes a panel of industry notables, including The Wall Street Journal ’s Robert Thomson, Time ’s Walter Isaacson and New York Daily News owner Mortimer Zuckerman, who provides comic relief (See “And Finally…” below). The issue...
Literary Lotus, February 10, 2009
...as it was then. The third is a biography of Einstein called “ Einstein: His Life and Universe ” by Walter Isaacson. That’s just because I like biographies and reading about people that are way more brilliant than I could ever hope to be. Q. How did...
dana, February 7, 2009
...Click The Pic To Look at The Rock-bottom Prices For Founding Faith Providence Politics and the Birth of Religious Freedom in America! Click Here To Purchase Founding Faith Providence Politics and the Birth of Religious Freedom in America at Amazon.com...
mathewingram.com/work, February 5, 2009
...add themselves to this chorus are Stu Bykofsky of the Philadelphia Daily News and veteran journalist and author Walter Isaacson, writing in Time magazine. Bykofsky wrote a piece that managed to hit pretty much every highlight (or lowlight) of the...
Scott Rosenberg's Wordyard, February 5, 2009
...Today Walter Isaacson, the venerable former editor of Time and current boss of the Aspen Institute, unleashes a multipronged offensive on behalf of the idea of micropayments for news. In a lecture...
PE.com - Riverside County California News, February 2, 2009
...the schedule is the 41st Hays Press-Enterprise Lecture, named for former editor and publisher Howard H "Tim" Hays. Walter Isaacson, former CEO of CNN and managing editor of Time magazine, will speak Wednesday. Jayme described Writers Week as one of the...
Thomas P.M. Barnett :: Weblog, January 30, 2009
...139. Here, the narrow orthodoxy of Nitze's . . . "loss" of China to Communism; and so on. Quoted in Walter Isaacson and Evan Thomas, The Wise Men: Six Friends and the World They Made (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1997), p. 395. 13. If you want to make it...
braden, January 24, 2009
...Click The Image To Check out The Lowermost Prices For America The Last Best Hope Volumes I & II Box Set! Click Here To Get America The Last Best Hope Volumes I & II Box Set at Amazon.com William J. Bennett reacquaints America with its heritage in two...
amy, January 23, 2009
...Click The Pic To Look at The Best Prices For Founding Faith Providence Politics and the Birth of Religious Freedom in America! Click Here To Purchase Founding Faith Providence Politics and the Birth of Religious Freedom in America at Amazon.com The...
reiners blog, January 20, 2009
...used the amazing saga of Google to explore what it means to search. All searchers should read it. Walter Isaacson, CEO of the Aspen Institute; former editor of Time ; former CEO of CNN Nobody, and I mean nobody, has thought longer, harder, or smarter...
irene, January 16, 2009
...Click The Picture To View The Marked down Prices For Founding Faith Providence Politics and the Birth of Religious Freedom in America! Click Here To Purchase Founding Faith Providence Politics and the Birth of Religious Freedom in America at Amazon.com...
Britannica Blog, January 16, 2009
...at home, if still a harder worker than most. * * * For more on Benjamin Franklin, see Walter Isaacson’s lively biography Benjamin Franklin: An American Life and H. W. Brands’s exemplary The First American: The Life and Times of Benjamin Franklin . In...
grayson, January 11, 2009
...Click The Picture To View The Half-price Prices For The Search How Google and Its Rivals Rewrote the Rules of Business and Transformed Our Culture! Click Here To Buy The Search How Google and Its Rivals Rewrote the Rules of Business and Transformed Our...
german, January 11, 2009
...Click The Image To Look at The Best Prices For Founding Faith Providence Politics and the Birth of Religious Freedom in America! Click Here To Buy Founding Faith Providence Politics and the Birth of Religious Freedom in America at Amazon.com The culture...
taylor, January 10, 2009
...Click The Picture To View The Half-price Prices For Founding Faith Providence Politics and the Birth of Religious Freedom in America! Click Here To Buy Founding Faith Providence Politics and the Birth of Religious Freedom in America at Amazon.com The...
lampe blog, January 1, 2009
...Why You Should Always Buy the Best America The Last Best Hope Volumes I & II Box Set - For the Bargain Hunters I find great prices for America The Last Best Hope Volumes I & II Box Set on Ebay.com CLICK PICTURE BELOW to check it out: I must assert that...
Neurotopia (version 2.0), December 31, 2008
...by Jane Dunn. 21) Napoleon in Love by R.F. Delderfield. 22) Benjamin Franklin: An American Life , by Walter Isaacson. I would have enjoyed this a lot more if the author lost the many references to Franklin's "prairie home companion" sense of humor. 23)...
emiliano, December 14, 2008
...Click The Pic To View The Rock-bottom Prices For America The Last Best Hope Volumes I & II Box Set! Click Here To Purchase America The Last Best Hope Volumes I & II Box Set at Amazon.com William J. Bennett reacquaints America with its heritage in two...
charity, December 13, 2008
...Click The Picture To Check out The Lower Prices For Founding Faith Providence Politics and the Birth of Religious Freedom in America! Click Here To Purchase Founding Faith Providence Politics and the Birth of Religious Freedom in America at Amazon.com...
sawyer, December 6, 2008
...Click The Image To View The Reduced Prices For America The Last Best Hope Volumes I & II Box Set! Click Here To Purchase America The Last Best Hope Volumes I & II Box Set at Amazon.com William J. Bennett reacquaints America with its heritage in two...
