華特.艾薩克森 Walter Isaacson
現任國際非營利組織亞斯本研究院(Aspen Institute)執行長暨總裁。該機構聲譽卓著,不僅是美國當代最著名的政策研究與教育機構,在歐洲、亞洲也設有研究分院,透過邀集各界精英舉辦高峰 會、研討會和執行研究計畫等,積極促進國際領導人才交流,並提出政策建言,是美國最具影響力的研究機構之一。
艾薩克森畢業於哈佛大學文學院,後以羅德學者身分在牛津大學進修,並取得哲學及政經碩士學位。曾任《時代》雜誌執行總編輯、CNN董事長兼執行長,在歐巴馬總統上任後,被指派擔任美國廣播理事會(BBG)主席。
艾薩克森不僅是一位傑出記者,更是備受讚譽的傳記作家,寫作功力一流。著有《愛因斯坦》(Einstein: His Life and Universe)、《富蘭克林傳》(Benjamin Franklin: An American Life)、《季辛吉傳》(Kissinger: A Biography)等暢銷傳記。
Based on more than forty interviews with Steve Jobs conducted over two years - as well as interviews with more than a hundred family members, friends, adversaries, competitors, and colleagues - this is the acclaimed, internationally bestselling biography of the ultimate icon of inventiveness. Walter Isaacson tells the story of the rollercoaster life and searingly intense personality of creative entrepreneur whose passion for perfection and ferocious drive revolutionized six industries: personal computers, animated movies,music, phones, tablet computing, and digital publishing. Although Jobs cooperated with this book, he asked for no control over what was written, nor even the right to read it before it was published. He put nothing off limits. He encouraged the people he knew to speak honestly. And Jobs speaks candidly, sometimes brutally so, about the people he worked with and competed against. His friends, foes, and colleagues provide an unvarnished view of the passions, perfectionism, obsessions, artistry, devilry, and compulsion for control that shaped his approach to business and the innovative products that resulted.