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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
about 19 hours ago
Kissinger will be released on May 21, 2013 in eBook
May 21, 2013
Kissinger is now available in eBook
May 21, 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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Einstein will be released on November 08, 2011 in Compact Disk
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International Business Times, May 22, 2013
...the late Apple co-founder who died in October 2011, described his pitch to e-book publishers to his biographer, Walter Isaacson. "We told the publishers, 'We'll go to the agency model, where you set the price, and we get our 30 percent, and, yes, the...
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...
Value Walk, May 23, 2013
...has everything built into it. ABC News reporter Joanna Stern points to a quote from Steve Jobs in Walter Isaacson’s biography of him. “I’d like to create an integrated television set that is completely easy to use. It would be seamlessly synced...
World News Australia, May 23, 2013
...RELATED Just before he died, Steve Jobs told his biographer Walter Isaacson about his dream for revolutionizing television. His fantasy device would control all the many doodads that crowd your living room DVRs, game consoles, Blu-ray players and would...
Special Broadcasting Service, May 23, 2013
...screenshot of the new Xbox One entertainment device. (AAP) Just before he died, Steve Jobs told his biographer Walter Isaacson about his dream for revolutionizing television, writes Farhad Manjoo. RELATED Just before he died, Steve Jobs told his...
Birmingham Star, May 23, 2013
...Just before he died, Steve Jobs told his biographer Walter Isaacson about his dream for revolutionizing television. His fantasy device would control all the many doodads that crowd your living room - DVRs, game consoles, Blu-ray players - and would...
Mumbai News.Net, May 23, 2013
...Just before he died, Steve Jobs told his biographer Walter Isaacson about his dream for revolutionizing television. His fantasy device would control all the many doodads that crowd your living room - DVRs, game consoles, Blu-ray players - and would...
Uzbekistan News, May 23, 2013
...device, made by Microsoft' SBS Thursday 23rd May, 2013 Just before he died, Steve Jobs told his biographer Walter Isaacson about his dream for revolutionizing television. His fantasy device would control all the many doodads that crowd your living room...
Kenya Star, May 23, 2013
...Just before he died, Steve Jobs told his biographer Walter Isaacson about his dream for revolutionizing television. His fantasy device would control all the many doodads that crowd your living room - DVRs, game consoles, Blu-ray players - and would...