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By (author) Isaacson Walter
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The new biography from Walter Isaacson, the Sunday Times bestselling author of Steve Jobs.
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The new biography from Walter Isaacson, the Sunday Times bestselling author of Steve Jobs.
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#1 New York Times non-fiction bestseller
#2 Sunday Times non-fiction bestseller
SHORTLISTED FOR THE FINANCIAL TIMES BUSINESS BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD
CHOSEN AS A BOOK OF THE YEAR BY APPLE, AMAZON, THE TIMES AND FINANCIAL TIMES
Walter Isaacson’s biography of Elon Musk offers the most intimate, complete and revelatory portrait of the most fascinating and controversial innovator in the world.
For two years, Isaacson had unprecedented access to Musk, his workplaces, his family, friends, coworkers and adversaries – nothing was off-limits.
Musk’s journey from humble beginnings to one of the wealthiest people on the planet is a thrilling, mind-bending story and nobody could tell it better. Filled with amazing tales of triumph and turmoil, and lessons about leadership and business, it ultimately addresses the question everyone wants to ask: why is Elon Musk so successful?
This book includes over 100 integrated black and white images.
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#1 New York Times non-fiction bestseller
#2 Sunday Times non-fiction bestseller
SHORTLISTED FOR THE FINANCIAL TIMES BUSINESS BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD
CHOSEN AS A BOOK OF THE YEAR BY APPLE, AMAZON, THE TIMES AND FINANCIAL TIMES
Walter Isaacson’s biography of Elon Musk offers the most intimate, complete and revelatory portrait of the most fascinating and controversial innovator in the world.
For two years, Isaacson had unprecedented access to Musk, his workplaces, his family, friends, coworkers and adversaries – nothing was off-limits.
Musk’s journey from humble beginnings to one of the wealthiest people on the planet is a thrilling, mind-bending story and nobody could tell it better. Filled with amazing tales of triumph and turmoil, and lessons about leadership and business, it ultimately addresses the question everyone wants to ask: why is Elon Musk so successful?
This book includes over 100 integrated black and white images.
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‘Its portrait of the tech maverick is fascinating. . .
a persuasive mixture of alarm and deep admiration”
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‘[Isaacson] has done something amazing with the Musk biography which is to write a 688-page quick read’
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‘Whatever you think of Mr Musk, he is a man worth understanding – which makes this a book worth reading’
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‘A penetrating new biography’
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‘A beat-by-beat book that follows the tycoon inside important rooms, as well as exploring obscure regions of his mind’
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‘A comprehensive, deeply reported chronicle of the world-shaping tech mogul’s life’
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‘An experienced biographer’s comprehensive study’
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‘He forms his own conclusions, which are mostly
admirably balanced and mature. . . Isaacson, in his quest for
a comprehensive audit of the Musk phenomenon, errs slightly on the side of the voyeur in these encounters, but I can’t blame him.
It’s quite the spectacle’
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‘The book contains a series of illuminating anecdotes about Musk’
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”Isaacson offers both an engaging chronicle of his subject’s busy life so far and some compelling answers’
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