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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
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Kissinger will be released on May 21, 2013 in eBook
May 21, 2013
Kissinger is now available in eBook
May 21, 2013
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Feb 23, 2013
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The Wise Men will be released on May 08, 2012 in Hardcover
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The Wise Men is now available in Hardcover
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NDTV, May 17, 2013
...girl there, so we started chatting a bit while I was waiting to be introduced," Jobs told Walter Isaacson, the author of the biography "Steve Jobs." They went out to dinner that evening, married two years later, and together had three children. Jobs...
Yahoo! Canada, May 17, 2013
...girl there, so we started chatting a bit while I was waiting to be introduced,” Mr. Jobs told Walter Isaacson, the author of the biography “Steve Jobs.” They went out to dinner that evening, married two years later, and together had three...
All Things D, May 15, 2013
...create a real mainstream e-books market at $12.99 and $14.99.” A comment Jobs made to biographer Walter Isaacson, explaining that Apple “told the publishers, ‘We’ll go the agency model, where you set the price, and we get our 30 percent, and...
Trentonian.com, May 15, 2013
...that it “solves Amazon issue,” Justice quoted him as saying. The company also quoted Jobs as telling biographer Walter Isaacson that Apple had “told the publishers, ‘We’ll go the agency model, where you set the price, and we get our 30...
Ghanaian Chronicle, May 15, 2013
...merged the virtues of Puritanism without its defects, the illumination of the enlightenment without its heat.? To Walter Isaacson, this makes Franklin ?the most accomplished American of his age and the most influential in inventing the type of society...
Apple Insider, May 15, 2013
...of the filing points to an excerpt from Jobs' authorized biography in which the tech mogul told biographer Walter Isaacson that Apple "told the publishers 'We'll go to the agency model, where you set the price, and we get our 30%, and yes, the customer...
Washington Post, May 14, 2013
...it solves [the] Amazon issue, Justice quoted him as saying. The company also quoted Jobs as telling biographer Walter Isaacson that Apple had told the publishers, Well go the agency model, where you set the price, and we get our 30 percent, and yes, the...
Paste Magazine, May 20, 2013
...Photo by John P. Johnson/HBO Larry David is returning to television, not as himself, but as a former marketing exec in Clear History. The Curb Your Enthusiasm creator and star plays Nathan, who sells his shares at a company after a fight with his boss...
Paste Magazine, May 20, 2013
...Photo by John P. Johnson/HBO Larry David is returning to television, not as himself, but as a former marketing exec in Clear History. The Curb Your Enthusiasm creator and star plays Nathan, who sells his shares at a company after a fight with his boss...
Seattle Times, May 20, 2013
...beautiful girl there, so we started chatting a bit while I was waiting to be introduced,” Jobs told Walter Isaacson, the author of the biography “Steve Jobs.” They went out to dinner that evening, married two years later, and together had three...
IFC TV, May 20, 2013
...Entertainment Weekly . Mottola based the idea for “Clear History” off of the problems an Apple employee faced in Walter Isaacson’s Steve Jobs biopic. With his impressive cast of comedic stars, Mottola opted to have “Clear History” be largely...
Artist Direct, May 20, 2013
...cable network this August, Clear History is loosely inspired by the story of an Apple employee described in Walter Isaacson's bestselling Steve Jobs biography. David plays the central figure, Nathan, a marketing executive at a promising start-up who...
Seattle Times, May 20, 2013
...beautiful girl there, so we started chatting a bit while I was waiting to be introduced,” Jobs told Walter Isaacson, the author of the biography “Steve Jobs.” They went out to dinner that evening, married two years later, and together had three...
Seattle Times, May 20, 2013
...beautiful girl there, so we started chatting a bit while I was waiting to be introduced,” Jobs told Walter Isaacson, the author of the biography “Steve Jobs.” They went out to dinner that evening, married two years later, and together had three...