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...And finally, if you are thinking of reading the new Walter Isaacson book on Elon Musk, you can check out my FT review here. Richard Waters responds That’s a lot of big questions, Rana....
...Alongside Richard Arkwright’s Cromford cotton mills in Derbyshire and Matthew Boulton’s Birmingham Soho Manufactory for metal goods, Wedgwood’s Etruria became a symbol of the coming industrial age of mass...
...Among novelists drawn to the subject is Richard Flanagan, whose The Living Sea of Waking Dreams (Chatto & Windus, January) explores the climate emergency through a familial crisis....
...Lionel Barber’s choices My two picks are both from 2012: Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson and Why Nations Fail by Daron Acemoglu and James Robinson, writes Lionel Barber....
...So have more balanced biographers, such as Walter Isaacson. Gewen’s book, however, is distinctive in that it is, above all, an account of Kissinger’s intellectual universe....
...In his late twenties he started his own architectural practice, ABK, with Paul Koralek and Richard Burton....
...He quotes figures from Richard Foster, co-author of Creative Destruction, to make his point....
...Richard Waters is the FT’s US West Coast editor Photograph: Wayne Miller/ Magnum Photos...
...In Walter Isaacson’s biography of Jobs, former Apple chief executive John Sculley describes Jobs’s staring contempt as “like an X-ray boring inside your bones”....
...But his initiative paved the way for others, such as Sir Richard Branson and Virgin Atlantic....
...Richard Fuld of Lehman Brothers was known for his short temper and intimidating style. The wrath of Robert Maxwell, the late media tycoon, was epic....
...… The Innovators: How a Group of Hackers, Geniuses and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution, by Walter Isaacson, Simon & Schuster, RRP£20/$35 Isaacson deserved the plaudits he received for his biography...
...Thanks to a hint about Apple’s TV plans that Steve Jobs dropped to biographer Walter Isaacson, all eyes have been fixed on the revolution that may soon come to the dominant living room screen....
...That does not seem to be what Steve Jobs had in mind when he told his biographer, Walter Isaacson, of his plan to wage “thermonuclear war” against Google over what he claimed was its slavish copying of Apple...
...Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson Isaacson’s exhaustive account deserves the wide readership it will undoubtedly get …If there is a message from [the] book, it is that Jobs the dictator was saved by his bigger...
...But as Apple's late co-founder Steve Jobs told his biographer Walter Isaacson, financial damages are not the primary goal of this legal action....
...But even with those caveats, some of his observations about other companies, from the authorised biography by Walter Isaacson that was published on Monday, make interesting reading....
...Richard Waters is the FT’s US west coast editor Steve Jobs, by Walter Isaacson, Little, Brown, RRP£25, 656 pages...
...In an interview not long before he died from cancer this month, Jobs told biographer Walter Isaacson that other companies, buoyed by their commercial success, let their products atrophy and became driven...
...Yet even if it doesn’t have the allure of Walter Isaacson’s recent best-selling biography of Jobs, Inside Apple still starts out with a worthwhile goal....
...Apple has argued that Google stole ideas from the iPhone for its Android software, with late Apple boss Steve Jobs telling his biographer Walter Isaacson that he would “go thermonuclear war” against Google...
...The programme picked up on Kissinger’s relationship with Richard Nixon in 1969, thereby overlooking his conduct during the close-run 1968 Nixon-Humphrey election, when he ingratiated himself with both parties...
...Isaacson introduces us to Jobs’s personal sacrifices, successes and failures – as well as the perennial challenge of juggling work-life balance....
...Steve Jobs: The Exclusive Biography, by Walter Isaacson, Little, Brown, RRP£25 Rushed into print only weeks after the death of the Apple founder, Isaacson’s book sets out to be the definitive history of...
...I wish to acknowledge Charles Overby, the CEO of Freedom Forum here at the Newseum; Senator Richard Lugar* and Senator Joe Lieberman, my former colleagues in the Senate, both of whom worked for passage of...
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