Walter Isaacson

On Saturday, you’ll have to buy the tickets at the door.

Based on more than forty interviews with Steve Jobs (Simon & Schuster, $35) conducted over two years—as well as interviews with more than a hundred family members, friends, adversaries, competitors, and colleagues—Walter Isaacson has written a riveting story of the roller-coaster life and searingly intense personality of a creative entrepreneur whose passion for perfection and ferocious drive revolutionized six industries: personal computers, animated movies, music, phones, tablet computing, and digital publishing. Driven by demons, Jobs could drive those around him to fury and despair. But his personality and products were interrelated, just as Apple’s hardware and software tended to be, as if part of an integrated system. His tale is instructive and cautionary, filled with lessons about innovation, character, leadership, and values.

Location: Street: 5500 Granada Boulevard City: Coral Gables, Province: Florida Postal Code: 33134-5008 Country: United States (added from IndieBound)… (more)

SOLD OUT -- TICKETS REQUIRED: This special presentation will be by ticket that is available for $10. That ticket can be redeemed for a $10 coupon, which can be used to purchase either the Steve Jobs book or any book at our own Books & Books. RSVP is required and can be made by contacting Sally Glenn at sg841@moafl.org or calling (954) 262-0202. 7:30pm

Based on more than forty interviews with Steve Jobs (Simon & Schuster, $35) conducted over two years—as well as interviews with more than a hundred family members, friends, adversaries, competitors, and colleagues—Walter Isaacsonhas written a riveting story of the roller-coaster life and searingly intense personality of a creative entrepreneur whose passion for perfection and ferocious drive revolutionized six industries: personal computers, animated movies, music, phones, tablet computing, and digital publishing. Driven by demons, Jobs could drive those around him to fury and despair. But his personality and products were interrelated, just as Apple's hardware and software tended to be, as if part of an integrated system. His tale is instructive and cautionary, filled with lessons about innovation, character, leadership, and values.

Location: Street: 1 East Las Olas Blvd City: Fort Lauderdale, Province: Florida Postal Code: 33301 Country: United States (added from IndieBound)… (more)

To kick-off the opening of four new branches of the public library,* please join nationally-acclaimed homegrown scholar Walter Isaacson for a book signing & discussion of Steve Jobs: A Biography at the Main New Orleans Public Library, 219 Loyola Avenue. Octavia Books will provide books for purchase at the event.

Refreshments will be served.

* Walter Isaacson grew up in the Broadmoor area, very close to the Rosa F. Keller Branch which reopens Saturday, March 17, 10:00AM.

Location: Street: New Orleans Public Library Additional: 219 Loyola Avenue City: New Orleans, Province: Louisiana Postal Code: 70112 Country: United States (added from IndieBound)… (more)

Steve Jobs Walter Isaacson Bestselling biographer Walter Isaacson is the author of Benjamin Franklin: An American Life, Kissinger: A Biography and Einsten: His Life and Universe. He is the president and CEO of the Aspen Institute for educational and policy studies. The recipient of several awards for his reporting, including the Overseas Press Club Award for foreign news interpretation, Isaacson has served as the Chairman and CEO of CNN and as Editor of Time Magazine. His timely new biography of the late Apple chief executive is a testament to an icon that represented the intersection of creativity and technology. Composed of more than 40 interviews with Jobs himself, as well as with more than 200 friends, colleagues, and adversaries, Steve Jobs traces the unprecedented career and extraordinary life of the beloved pioneer. Parkway Central Library 1901 Vine Street Philadelphia, PA 19103 (between 19th and 20th Streets on the Parkway) This is a TICKETED event; $15 General Admission, $7 Students. For more information, please call 215-567-4341, or click here Limit of two tickets per person Tickets on sale January 12, 2012 at 10:00 a.m.

Location: Street: Free Library of Philadelphia Additional: 1901 Vine Street City: Philadelphia, Province: Pennsylvania Postal Code: 19103-5207 Country: United States (added from IndieBound)… (more)

WALTER ISAACSON reads from American Sketches: Great Leaders, Creative Thinkers, and Heroes of a Hurricane.

Harvard Book Store is pleased to welcome journalist and acclaimed biographer WALTER ISAACSON for a discussion of his new collection of essays, American Sketches: Great Leaders, Creative Thinkers, and Heroes of a Hurricane. In American Sketches, Walter Isaacson reflects on the lessons to be learned from Benjamin Franklin, Albert Einstein, Bill Gates, Henry Kissinger, Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev, Hillary Clinton and Bill Clinton, and various other interesting characters he has chronicled as a biographer and journalist. The people he writes about have an awesome intelligence, in most cases, but that is not the secret of their success. They had qualities that were even more rare, such as imagination and true curiosity. (ablachly)… (more)