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Walter Isaacson

Walter Isaacson
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Walter Isaacson

Walter Isaacson, the CEO of the Aspen Institute, has been chairman of CNN and the managing editor of Time magazine. He is the author of Einstein: His Life and Universe; Benjamin Franklin: An American Life; and Kissinger: A Biography, and the coauthor of The Wise Men: Six Friends and the World They Made. He lives in Washington, DC.

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The Wise Men will be released on June 04, 2013 in Trade Paperback
May 17, 2013
Kissinger will be released on May 21, 2013 in eBook
May 17, 2013
Audio Excerpt:
Einstein
Feb 23, 2013
Excerpt:
Excerpt 1 from Steve Jobs
Jan 24, 2013
Excerpt:
Excerpt 1 from Benjamin Franklin
Aug 30, 2012
The Wise Men will be released on May 08, 2012 in Hardcover
May 08, 2012
The Wise Men is now available in Hardcover
May 08, 2012
Mar 13, 2012
Mar 12, 2012
The Wise Men is now available in Hardcover, eBook
Feb 28, 2012
The Wise Men will be released on February 28, 2012 in Hardcover, eBook
Feb 28, 2012
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Dec 04, 2011
Einstein will be released on November 08, 2011 in Compact Disk
Nov 08, 2011
Einstein is now available in Compact Disk
Nov 08, 2011

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Value Walk, April 18, 2013
...The Social Network” writer Aaron Sorkin is also writing a screenplay based on the Jobs’ biography written by Walter Isaacson. If I wasn’t clear enough wait for either of these films. On a somewhat unrelated Steve Jobs note, David Greelish at...
The Advocate, April 17, 2013
...As a thinker about how ideas are born — and how they travel from mind to mind — Walter Isaacson is a man worth hearing. So we’re glad that a panel considering LSU’s future invited Isaacson to speak about the university’s challenges and...
King5.com, April 17, 2013
...More than a decade ago, as I was getting up to speed on the Microsoft beat, one of my new contacts handed me a biography called Gates, by journalists Stephen Manes and Paul Andrews. More than anything else I read at the time, the epic biography helped...
Macworld UK, April 17, 2013
...its satirical movie on its website first. Sony is also working on a Steve Jobs movie based on Walter Isaacson's official biography. The book has been adapted into a screenplay by The Social Network's Aaron Sorkin, and is expected to make its way to our...
Fortune, April 17, 2013
...screened at Sundance in January, although its official release has been indefinitely postponed. Sony's version, based on Walter Isaacson's biography, is still being written by Aaron (The West Wing, The Social Network) Sorkin. It could be long time...
Hattiesburg American, April 15, 2013
...offered to libraries. That means current titles such as Jodi Picoult’s “The Storyteller,” recent works such as Walter Isaacson’s “Steve Jobs” and such classics as F. Scott Fitzgerald’s “The Great Gatsby.” Reidy added that she hopes to...
Tulsa World, April 15, 2013
...to lost sales. Such popular Simon & Schuster books as Doris Kearns Goodwin’s “Team of Rivals” and Walter Isaacson’s “Steve Jobs” will be made available in digital editions. The pilot program begins April 30. Simon & Schuster CEO Carolyn...
Australian Macworld, January 18, 2013
...texting on their iPhone. It was otherworldly.” jOBS, not to be confused with Sony’s movie adaptation of Walter Isaacson’s Steve Jobs biography which is expected to arrive later this year, depicts Jobs’ life from 1971 to 2000, and also...
MSN Money Canada, January 18, 2013
...the Steve Jobs book at me, I might scream. By the end of last year, everybody who got Walter Isaacson's tome for Christmas 2011 had finally read it, and the fascination with St. Steve had only grown deeper and more tiresome with his absence. Still, it...
CSR Wire, January 18, 2013
...Community Change into a premier national knowledge center about community building in disadvantaged locations across the country, said Walter Isaacson, president of the Aspen Institute. The publications in the Roundtables series, Voices from the Field...
FOXBusiness.com, January 18, 2013
...fascinating individuals in their own right. Mark admired Jobs. And Steve Jobs saw Zuckerberg’s brilliance. Jobs’ biographer, Walter Isaacson, states Jobs had a lot of respect for the young leader. He says the reason Jobs felt Apple didn’t crack...
Hollywood Reporter, January 18, 2013
...rods in his personal collection, making it one of the largest in the world. "I had just read Walter Isaacson's Benjamin Franklin biography, and I became curious about lightning rods -- where they came from and how they were marketed," he says of the folk...
Macworld UK, January 18, 2013
...on their iPhone. It was otherworldly." jOBS, not to be confused with Sony's movie adaptation of Walter Isaacson's Steve Jobs biography which is expected to arrive later this year, depicts Jobs' life from 1971 to 2000, and also stars Matthew Modine as...
Mac Life, January 18, 2013
...film -- and then start waiting for the real deal with the Aaron Sorkin adaptation of the best-selling Walter Isaacson bio coming from Sony. Dolphin Browser Adds One-Tap Share, Web Clipping to Evernote If you prefer to rock a third-party browser on...