Steve Jobs

The Exclusive Biography

By: Walter Isaacson

Narrated by: Dylan Baker, Walter Isaacson (introduction)

Length: 25 hrs and 3 mins

Publisher's summary

From best-selling author Walter Isaacson comes the landmark biography of Apple co-founder Steve Jobs.

In Steve Jobs: The Exclusive Biography, Isaacson provides an extraordinary account of Jobs' professional and personal life. Drawn from three years of exclusive and unprecedented interviews Isaacson has conducted with Jobs as well as extensive interviews with Jobs' family members and key colleagues from Apple and its competitors, Steve Jobs: The Exclusive Biography is the definitive portrait of the greatest innovator of his generation.

With an introduction read by the author.

©2011 Walter Isaacson (P)2011 Simon & Schuster Inc

Go get it!

Go get this book! It's worth more than what you are paying for it.

I am still part way through it and totally hooked. But it is the most honest and refreshing book you will ever read. Besides giving you the real history of Steve Jobs, the fullness gives you perspective of a very private person's life. Only Gandhi's autobiography was more honest and that is saying something.

There are books which inspire, there are those which are PR excercises and then those which inflame or criticize. This book just gives an honest, comprehensive and loose narrative of his life.

Don't look at the cynical reviews. This book is about a man who was faulty, egoistic, problematic and whole lot of other things. But, he changed the world and forced us all to think different... and we are all better for it.

What a stoty! Worth reading

Would you recommend this audiobook to a friend? If so, why?

ntertaining - Steve Jobs had an eventful life, he experimented, challenged convention, succeeded, failed, annoyed...and was anything but boring.

Challenging - this book challenged my views of good and evil, of the end justifying or not justifying the means... of the liberties that are and should be granted to genius.


Moving - under everything is a man, a child rejected by a mother and put up for adoption, and insecure adult, a manipulator and a person struggling with his own mortality.

This book describes one individual’s journey through life. A unique journey but a universal one too as we have all suffered success and failure, rejection. We all have been manipulated and manipulated others... The human experience! The book teaches you about Steve Jobs but also about yourself, if you monitor your gut responses' to his behavior.
I am still not sure what I think of Steve Jobs but I understand what a complex and extreme example he is of a human being. This book gives a window into how he thought and the importance he placed on his legacy - his products and his company.
Also I would like to warn you that this book is a great book to understand the man Steve Jobs, but not the book to understand apple, or how the company will and did create the products they have. If some of you want to get this to understand apple they might be disappointed.
It's clearly not a book about a poor kid becomes good, it's a real life experience on someone who was great and a complete a-hole at times. In short read and enjoy, but don't use it as some sort of study bible.

To conclude I would say the book is nice and worth the price but don’t expect to be blown away … I am sure there are great books about.

fascinating

i was struggling to finish this Jobs story, as i am a Chinese speaker, but that is not stop me from loving this.

The Portrait of the Genius who changed the World

Mr. Isaacson describes the life of Steve Jobs, the greatest entrepreneurial genius of our time, as if has been accompanying him all his life.

This was the most enjoyable biography I've ever read.

Brilliant writer great story

Steve Jobs a visionary an a-hole and a legend. A book that makes you think and reflect. The writer can’t be any better. I need a book on how the write wrote the book.

To the mercurials

Steve Jobs' life being told in a balance way, not as a fairytale story, but a person's life, with highs and lows. I think he would have appreciated it, I surely did.

Steve Jobs inventor

Steve jobs was a inventor, he stands on the shoulder of Giants like Albert Einstein, Who single handedly invented quantum mechanics, relativity theory, and wanted to invent a theory of everything,

Excellent!!

I never knew about a lot of the stuff surrounding Apple and Steve Jobs. What a fantastic audiobook!

Walter Isaacson delivers!

One of the best books and biographies ever. An amazing story of one of the world's most remarkable people that ever lived. Steve Jobs is an inspiration despite his quirks.

Good story, well read

It's probably not easy to write a book about one of the greatast men of our times working in tech. Dylan Baker does a great job in narrating this book and it really makes you understand so many things about Apple better. Recommend it!