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From bestselling author Walter Isaacson comes the landmark

biography of Apple co-founder Steve Jobs. In Steve Jobs: The

Exclusive Biography, Isaacson provides an extraordinary account of

Jobs' professional and personal life. Drawn from three years of

exclusive and unprecedented interviews Isaacson has conducted with

Jobs as well as extensive interviews with Jobs' family members, key

colleagues from Apple and its competitors, Steve Jobs: The

Exclusive Biography is the definitive portrait of the greatest

innovator of his generation.

The narrative of his personal life builds throughout the book

beginning with one distinct chapter, then another, then another,

until gradually his personal and professional lives become

intertwined. There is material on his parents, on how he came to be

adopted (and quite a bit, throughout the book, on his attitude to

his adoption), his influences during his childhood, his emerging

attitude to life, his girlfriends, his wife and his children. There

is new material in amongst all of this and many, many gripping

stories. Ordinarily, we don’t get to hear much about Steve Jobs’s

private life – but there is a lot here.

The intricacies of Steve’s character are revealed through the

events of his life story. This means that his less praiseworthy

attributes are in evidence throughout – as much as his qualities.

It’s the combination of the two that is most fascinating, and the

book subtly explores where the many parts of Steve Jobs come from

and why they came to create such a successful and remarkable

man.

This is a biography, but it is also the most inspiring, most

insightful business book one could imagine. Apple is such a unique

organization that has excelled in almost every area through force

of will, through hard work, through vision, through perfectionism

and through the most canny market awareness and deal-making and

breaking. Jobs’s role in all of this is a huge part of this book.

Anyone who has an aspiration or drive in whatever their career may

be – in marketing, in management, in design, in technology – will

want to read this book. .

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 and instead encouraged the

people he knew to speak honestly – even foes, former girlfriends,

and colleagues he had once fired or infuriated. “I’ve done a lot of

things I’m not proud of, such as getting my girlfriend pregnant

when I was 23 and the way I handled that,” he said. “But I don’t

have any skeletons in my closet that can’t be allowed out.”

Characters  xiii

Introduction: How This Book Came to Be  xvii

CHAPTER ONE Childhood: Abandoned and Chosen 

CHAPTER TWO Odd Couple: The Two Steves 

CHAPTER THREE The Dropout: Turn On, Tune In  

CHAPTER FOUR Atari and India: Zen and the Art of Game

Design 

CHAPTER FIVE The Apple I: Turn On, Boot Up, Jack In 

CHAPTER SIX The Apple II: Dawn ofaNewAge 

CHAPTER SEVEN Chrisann and Lisa: He Who Is Abandoned 

CHAPTER EIGHT Xerox and Lisa: Graphical User Interfaces 

CHAPTER NINE Going Public: A Man of Wealth and Fame 

CHAPTER TEN The Mac Is Born: You Say You Want a

Revolution 

CHAPTER ELEVEN The Reality Distortion Field: Playing by His Own Set

of Rules 

CHAPTER TWELVE The Design: RealArtists Simplify 

CHAPTER THIRTEEN Building the Mac: The Journey Is the

Reward 

CHAPTER FOURTEEN Enter ScuUey: The Pepsi Challenge 

CHAPTER FIFTEEN The Launch: A Dent in the Universe 

CHAPTER SIXTEEN Gates and Jobs: When Orbits Intersect 

CHAPTER SEVENTEEN Icarus: What Goes Up... 

CHAPTER EIGHTEEN NEXT: Prometheus Unbound 

CHAPTER NINETEEN Pixar: Technology Meets Art 

CHAPTER TWENTY A Regular Guy: Love Is Just a Four-Letter

Word 

CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE Family Man: At Home with the Jobs

Clan 

CHAPTER TWENTY-TWO Toy Story: Buzz and Woody to the

Rescue 

CHAPTER TWENTY-THREE The Second Coming:What Rough Beast, Its Hour

Come Round at Last... 

CHAPTER TWENTY-FOUR The Restoration: The Loser Now Will Be Later to

Win 

CHAPTER TWENTY-FIVE Think Different:Jobs as iCEO 

CHAPTER TWENTY-SIX Design Principles: The Studio of Jobs and

Ive 

CHAPTER TWENTY-SEVEN The iMac: Hello (Again) 

CHAPTER TWENTY-EIGHT CEO: Still Crazy after All These

Years 

CHAPTER TWENTY-NINE Apple Stores: Genius Bars and Siena

Sandstone 

CHAPTER THIRTY The Digital Hub: From iTunes to the iPod 

CHAPTER THIRTY-ONE The iTunes Store: I'm the Pied Piper 

CHAPTER THIRTY-TWO Music Man: The Sound Track of His

Life 

CHAPTER THIRTY-THREE Pixar's Friends: . . . and Foes 

CHAPTER THIRTY-FOUR Twenty-first-century Macs: Setting Apple

Apart 

CHAPTER THIRTY-FIVE Round One: Memento Mori 

CHAPTER THIRTY-SIXThe iPhone: Three Revolutionary Products in

One 

CHAPTER THIRTY-SEVEN Round Two: The Cancer Recurs 

CHAPTER THIRTY-EIGHT The iPad: Into the Post-PC Era 

CHAPTER THIRTY-NINE New Battles: And Echoes of Old Ones 

CHAPTER FORTY To Infinity: The Cloud, the Spaceship, and

Beyond 

CHAPTER FORTY-ONE Round Three: The Twilight Struggle 

CHAPTER FORTY-TWO Legacy: The Brightest Heaven of

Invention 

Acknowledgments 

Sources 

Notes 

Index 

　　Walter Isaacson

　　Walter Isaacson is the author of the forthcoming biography “Steve

Jobs.” His previous books include “Benjamin Franklin: An American

Life,” “Einstein: His Life and Universe,” “Kissinger: A Biography,”

and he is the coauthor, with Evan Thomas, of “The Wise Men: Six

Friends and the World They Made.” Isaacson is the CEO of the Aspen

Institute. He was previously the editor of Time Magazine and the

CEO of CNN. He was born in New Orleans, La., on May 20, 1952. He is

a graduate of Newman School in New Orleans, Harvard College, and

Pembroke College of Oxford University. He serves as chairman of the

Broadcasting Board of Governors, which oversees Voice of America,

Radio Free Europe, and other U.S. international broadcasts. He is

also the chairman of the board of Teach for America. He is on the

boards of United Continental Airlines, Bloomberg Foundation,

Harvard Overseers, and Tulane University.

　　Isaacson has been working on a biography of Apple CEO Steve Jobs

since 2009, the first biography of Jobs written with his full

cooperation. It will be published November 21, 2011 by Simon &

Schuster under the title Steve Jobs: A Biography.

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书籍介绍

Based on more than forty interviews with Jobs conducted over two years—as well as interviews with more than a hundred family members, friends, adversaries, competitors, and colleagues—Walter Isaacson has written a riveting story of the roller-coaster life and searingly intense personality of a creative entrepreneur whose passion for perfection and ferocious drive revolutionized six industries: personal computers, animated movies, music, phones, tablet computing, and digital publishing.

At a time when America is seeking ways to sustain its innovative edge, and when societies around the world are trying to build digital-age economies, Jobs stands as the ultimate icon of inventiveness and applied imagination. He knew that the best way to create value in the twenty-first century was to connect creativity with technology. He built a company where leaps of the imagination were combined with remarkable feats of engineering.

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.

Driven by demons, Jobs could drive those around him to fury and despair. But his personality and products were interrelated, just as Apple’s hardware and software tended to be, as if part of an integrated system. His tale is instructive and cautionary, filled with lessons about innovation, character, leadership, and values.