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| Apple co-founder Steve Jobs' biogra |
| Apple co-founder Steve Jobs' biography hits the bookstores
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| UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
, 25-October-2011
3:33:2 AM |
| The eagerly awaited biography of Apple co-founder Steve Jobs hit bookstores on Monday, painting a candid portrait of a technology visionary who could be as bruising as he was brilliant. (Read review)
The 630-page book, titled simply "Steve Jobs," is already number one on the list of best-sellers for Amazon's Kindle and goes on sale less than three weeks after Jobs died at the age of 56 after a long battle with pancreatic cancer.
Written by Walter Isaacson, a former managing editor of Time magazine, the book is the result of 40 interviews Isaacson conducted with Jobs since 2009 and with over 100 family members, friends, business rivals and colleagues.
Published by Simon & Schuster, the authorized biography was initially scheduled for release in early 2012 but its publication date was moved up to November and then to October 24 following Jobs's death on October 5.
The book recounts the now familiar story of how barefoot college dropout Jobs and computer whiz Steve Wozniak began building the first Apple computers in the garage of the Jobs family home in Los Altos, California, in 1976.
It goes on to describe Jobs's acrimonious ouster from Apple in 1985, his launch of computer company NeXT and animation studio Pixar during his Apple exile, and his eventually triumphant return to the company he founded.
Jobs's second act at Apple, which began in 1996, was arguably the most creative time of his life, a period during which he revamped the Macintosh computer line and gave the world the iPod, iTunes, the iPhone and the iPad.
Besides fleshing out his remarkable professional career with previously unknown details and anecdotes the book provides an intimate portrait of the notoriously secretive Jobs as boss, friend and family man.
The portrayal is not always flattering.
"Jobs at times seemed driven by demons," Isaacson writes. "He could be charismatic, even mesmerizing, but also cold and brutal."
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