| American Sketches: Great Leaders, Creative Thinkers, and Heroes of a Hurricane Contributor(s): Isaacson, Walter (Author) |
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ISBN: 1439183449 ISBN-13: 9781439183441 Publisher: Simon & Schuster OUR PRICE: $16.20 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: November 2010 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Collections | American - General - History | United States - General |
| Dewey: 973.099 |
| LCCN: 2009041675 |
| Physical Information: 0.8" H x 6.1" W x 8.96" (0.87 lbs) 304 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: In this collection of essays, the brilliant, acclaimed biographer Walter Isaacson reflects on lessons to be learned from Benjamin Franklin, Albert Einstein, Bill Gates, Henry Kissinger, Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev, Hillary Clinton and Bill Clinton, and other interesting characters he has chronicled both as biographer and journalist. He writes also about how he became a writer, the challenges for journalism in the digital age, and offers loving tributes to his hometown of New Orleans. |
Contributor Bio(s): Isaacson, Walter: - Walter Isaacson, University Professor of History at Tulane, has been CEO of the Aspen Institute, chairman of CNN, and editor of Time magazine. He is the author of Leonardo da Vinci; The Innovators; Steve Jobs; Einstein: His Life and Universe; Benjamin Franklin: An American Life; and Kissinger: A Biography, and the coauthor of The Wise Men: Six Friends and the World They Made. Facebook: Walter Isaacson, Twitter: @WalterIsaacson |