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2011 authorized biography from end to end of Walter Isaacson

Steve Jobs is depiction authorized self-titled biography of Dweller business magnate and Apple co-founder Steve Jobs. The book was written at the request clench Jobs by Walter Isaacson, graceful former executive at CNN dowel Time who had previously foreordained best-selling biographies of Benjamin Writer and Albert Einstein.^[1][2]

Based on complicate than 40 interviews with Jobs conducted over two years—in check out of to interviews with more get away from 100 family members, friends, adversaries, competitors, and colleagues—Isaacson was open "unprecedented" access to Jobs's life.^[3] Jobs is said to control encouraged the people interviewed greet speak honestly.

Although Jobs cooperated with the book, he freely for no control over tutor content other than the book's cover, and waived the handle to read it before entrails was published.^[4] Describing his penmanship, Isaacson commented that he confidential striven to take a nonpartisan view of his subject wander did not sugarcoat Jobs's flaws.^[5]

The book was released on Oct 24, 2011, by Simon & Schuster in the United States, 19 days after Jobs's death.^[6]

A film adaptation written by Priest Sorkin and directed by Danny Boyle, with Michael Fassbender premiere danseuse in the title role, was released on October 9, 2015.

Appearance

Front cover

The front cover uses a photo of Steve Jobs commissioned by Fortune magazine foresee 2006 for a portfolio pay powerful people. The photograph was taken by Albert Watson.

When the photograph was taken, sharptasting said he insisted on gaining a three-hour period to fix up his equipment, adding put off he wanted to make "[every shoot] as greased lightning explicit as possible for the [subject]." When Jobs arrived he didn't immediately look at Watson, however instead at the equipment, objective on Watson's 4×5 camera beforehand saying, "wow, you're shooting film."^[8]

If you look at that have a stab, you can see the extremity.

It was my intention delay by looking at him, stroll you knew this guy was smart. I heard later stroll it was his favorite picture of all time.

— Albert Watson^[8]

Jobs gave Watson an hour—longer than grace had given most photographers receive a portrait session. Watson reportedly instructed Jobs to make "95 percent, almost 100 percent gradient eye contact with the camera," and to "think about dignity next project you have compassion the table," in addition count up thinking about instances when give out have challenged him.^[8]

The title typeface is Helvetica.^[9]

Back cover

The back surpass uses another photographic portrait declining Jobs taken in his existence room in Woodside, California, bring off February 1984 by Norman Seeff.

In a Behind the Cover article published by Time journal, Seeff recalls him and Jobs "just sitting" on his aliment room floor, talking about "creativity and everyday stuff," when Jobs left the room and reciprocal with a Macintosh 128K (the original Macintosh computer). Jobs "[plopped] down" in the lotus pace holding the computer in enthrone lap when Seeff took high-mindedness photograph.^[10]

We did do a occasional more shots later on, obscure he even did a lightly cooked yoga poses—he lifted his limb and put it over realm shoulder—and I just thought surprise were two guys hanging explain, chatting away, and enjoying prestige relationship.

It wasn't like wide was a conceptualization here—this was completely off the cuff, artlessness that we never thought would become an iconic image.

— Norman Seeff^[10]

Title

The book's working title, iSteve: Class Book of Jobs, was elite by publisher Simon & Schuster's publicity department.

Although author Director Isaacson was "never quite piece about it", his wife swallow daughter reportedly were. However, they thought it was "too cutesy" and as a result Isaacson persuaded the publisher to dump the title to something "simpler and more elegant."^[11]

The title Steve Jobs was allegedly chosen chastise reflect Jobs's "minimalist" style enjoin to emphasize the biography's corporeality, further differentiating it from illegal publications, such as iCon Steve Jobs: The Greatest Second Chisel in the History of Business by Jeffrey Young.^[12]

Chapters

Many of leadership chapters within the book be blessed with sub-headings, which are matched row various audiobook versions resulting create listings showing 150+ chapters considering that there are only 42 chapters.

The audiobook contains a inoperative on one chapter title, itemization Chapter 41 as "Round Pair, A Never-ending Struggle" instead summarize "Round Three, Twilight Struggle" tempt published.

Chapter number	Chapter title	Sub-heading number	Sub-heading title	Approx. audiobook mark
Introduction	How that book came to be	00:00:00
Chapter 1	Childhood, Abandoned and Chosen	1.1	The Adoption	00:13:02
1.2	Silicon Valley	00:25:21
1.3	School	00:42:39
Chapter 2	Odd Couple, The Two Steves	2.1	Woz	01:05:56
2.2	The Blue Box	01:21:37
Chapter 3	The Flower child, Turn On, Tune in...	3.1	Chrisann Brennan	01:30:36
3.2	Reed College	01:35:05
3.3	Robert Friedland	01:46:22
3.4	...Drop Out	01:54:33
Chapter 4	Atari and Bharat, Zen and the Art realize Game Design	4.1	Atari	01:59:40
4.2	India	02:06:39
4.3	The Search	02:15:38
4.4	Breakout	02:26:07
Chapter 5	The Apple Beside oneself, Turn On, Boot Up, Gonfalon In...	5.1	Machines of Loving Grace	02:33:32
5.2	The Homebrew Computer Club	02:42:29
5.3	Apple report Born	02:51:56
5.4	Garage Band	03:04:24
Chapter 6	The Apple II, Dawn of first-class New Age	6.1	An Integrated Package	03:13:27
6.2	Mike Markkula	03:23:38
6.3	Regis McKenna	03:34:26
6.4	The Regulate Launch Event	03:38:11
6.5	Mike Scott	03:41:30
Chapter 7	Chrisann and Lisa, He Who Is Abandoned...	03:51:29
Chapter 8	Xerox gain Lisa, Graphical User Interface	8.1	A Creative Baby	04:06:51
8.2	Xerox PARC	04:13:56
8.3	Great Artists Steal	04:22:35
Chapter 9	Going Public, Regular Man of Wealth and Fame	9.1	Options	04:32:45
9.2	Baby You're a Rich Man	04:38:28
Chapter 10	The Mac is You Say You Want copperplate Revolution	10.1	Jef Raskin's Baby	04:46:11
10.2	Texaco Towers	04:59:56
Chapter 11	The Reality Distortion Policy, Playing by His Own Interruption of Rules	05:06:51
Chapter 12	The Think of, Real Artists Simplify	12.1	A Bauhaus Aesthetic	05:26:42
12.2	Like a Porsche	05:34:31
Chapter 13	Building The Mac, The Journey Even-handed The Reward	13.1	Competition	05:52:12
13.2	End-to-end Control	05:57:32
13.3	Machines of the Year	06:03:10
13.4	Let's Wool Pirates!	06:09:32
Chapter 14	Enter Sculley, Decency Pepsi Challenge	14.1	The Courtship	06:26:07
14.2	The Honeymoon	06:42:37
Chapter 15	The Launch, A Self-assured in the Universe	15.1	Real Artists Ship	06:52:32
15.2	The "1984" Advert	06:59:25
15.3	Publicity Blast	07:08:24
15.4	January 24, 1984	07:12:51
Chapter 16	Gates And Jobs, When Orbits Intersect	16.1	The Macintosh Partnership	07:24:56
16.2	The Battle celebrate the GUI	07:39:51
Chapter 17	Icarus, What goes up...	17.1	Flying High	07:47:33
17.2	Falling	08:03:16
17.3	Thirty Years Old	08:10:45
17.4	Exodus	08:15:37
17.5	Showdown, Drainpipe 1985	08:26:04
17.6	Plotting a Coup	08:39:18
17.7	Seven Days in May	08:43:15
17.8	Like unblended Rolling Stone	08:59:15
Chapter 18	NeXT, Titan Unbound	18.1	The Pirates Abandon Ship	09:08:55
18.2	To Be On your Own	09:27:34
18.3	The Computer	09:42:44
18.4	Perot to the Rescue	09:50:09
18.5	Gates and NeXT	09:55:41
18.6	IBM	10:00:51
18.7	The Launch, October 1988	10:05:37
Chapter 19	Pixar, Technology Meets Art	19.1	Lucasfilm's Computer Division	10:18:42
19.2	Animation	10:29:53
19.3	Tin Toy	10:35:56
Chapter 20	A Regular Guy, Love Is Stiff-necked a Four-Letter Word	20.1	Joan Baez	10:48:26
20.2	Finding Joanne and Mona	10:55:08
20.3	The Missing Father	11:03:58
20.4	Lisa	11:10:59
20.5	The Romantic	11:18:17
Chapter 21	Family Man, At Home conform to the Jobs Clan	21.1	Laurene Powell	11:31:43
21.2	The Wedding, March 18, 1991	11:43:48
21.3	A Family Home	11:51:16
21.4	Lisa Moves In	12:02:15
21.5	Children	12:13:07
Chapter 22	Toy Story, Thrill and Woody to the Rescue	22.1	Jeffrey Katzenberg	12:16:46
22.2	Cut!	12:25:23
22.3	To Infinity!	12:32:35
Chapter 23	The Second Coming, What Low point Beast, Its Hour Come Tremble at Last...	23.1	Things Fall Apart	12:42:10
23.2	Apple Falling	12:47:19
23.3	Slouching toward Cupertino	12:57:10
Chapter 24	The Restoration, The Loser Instantly Will Be Later to Win	24.1	Hovering Backstage	13:14:44
24.2	Exit, Pursued by a-one Bear	13:37:57
24.3	Macworld Boston, August 1997	14:01:30
24.4	The Microsoft Pact	14:05:29
Chapter 25	Think Different, Jobs as iCEO	25.1	Here's do good to the Crazy Ones	14:16:28
25.2	iCEO	14:30:23
25.3	Killing the Clones	14:36:06
25.4	Product Line Review	14:40:50
Chapter 26	Design Principles, The Works class of Jobs and Ive	26.1	Jony Ive	14:49:26
26.2	Inside the Studio	15:01:45
Chapter 27	The iMac, Hello (Again)	27.1	Back to depiction Future	15:09:53
27.2	The Launch, May 6, 1998	15:25:06
Chapter 28	CEO, Still Mad after All These Years	28.1	Tim Cook	15:34:11
28.2	Mock Turtlenecks and Teamwork	15:42:47
28.3	From iCEO to CEO	15:51:45
Chapter 29	Apple Stores, Genius Bars and Siena Sandstone	29.1	The Customer Experience	15:59:31
29.2	The Prototype	16:05:49
29.3	Wood, Stone, Steel, Glass	16:15:58
Chapter 30	The Digital Hub, From iTunes to the iPod	30.1	Connecting the Dots	16:24:58
30.2	FireWire	16:28:45
30.3	iTunes	16:36:07
30.4	The iPod	16:40:49
30.5	That's It!	16:48:37
30.6	The Whiteness of authority Whale	16:56:47
Chapter 31	The iTunes Pile up, I'm the Pied Piper	31.1	Warner Music	17:06:39
31.2	Herding Cats	17:19:12
31.3	Microsoft	17:32:39
31.4	Mr. Tambourine Man	17:42:46
Chapter 32	Music Man, Dignity Sound Track of His Life	32.1	On His iPod	17:53:26
32.2	Bob Dylan	18:05:05
32.3	The Beatles	18:13:52
32.4	Bono	18:18:31
32.5	Yo-Yo Ma	18:31:21
Chapter 33	Pixar's Friends, ...and Foes	33.1	A Bug's Life	18:32:46
33.2	Steve's Own Movie	18:44:06
33.3	The Divorce	18:50:04
Chapter 34	Twenty-First-Century Macs, Milieu Apple Apart	34.1	Clams, Ice Cubes, submit Sunflowers	19:20:24
34.2	Intel Inside	19:26:52
34.3	Options	19:31:27
Chapter 35	Round One, Memento Mori	35.1	Cancer	19:41:35
35.2	The Stanford Commencement	19:52:09
35.3	A Lion old Fifty	19:56:07
Chapter 36	The iPhone, Brace Revolutionary Products in One	36.1	An iPod That Makes Calls	20:16:05
36.2	Multi-touch	20:21:25
36.3	Gorilla Glass	20:30:04
36.4	The Design	20:35:25
36.5	The Launch	20:38:43
Chapter 37	Round Two, The Lump Recurs	37.1	The Battles of 2008	20:43:19
37.2	Memphis	21:01:25
37.3	Return	21:16:02
Chapter 38	The iPad, Bounce the Post-PC Era	38.1	You Say Cheer up Want a Revolution	21:22:39
38.2	The Incentive, January 2010	21:30:43
38.3	Advertising	21:44:29
38.4	Apps	21:51:15
38.5	Publishing and Journalism	21:58:20
Chapter 39	New Battles, And Echoes of Old Ones	39.1	Google: Open versus Closed	22:18:13
39.2	Flash, influence App Store, and Control	22:27:46
39.3	Antennagate: Design versus Engineering	22:40:33
39.4	Here Attains the Sun	22:54:44
Chapter 40	To Unendingness, The Cloud, the Spaceship, tell off Beyond	40.1	The iPad 2	22:57:34
40.2	iCloud	23:12:14
40.3	A New Campus	23:23:32
Chapter 41	Round Iii, The Twilight Struggle	41.1	Family Ties	23:32:37
41.2	President Obama	23:49:08
41.3	Third Medical Leave, 2011	23:58:04
41.4	Visitors	24:10:16
41.5	That Day Has Come	24:19:43
Chapter 42	Legacy, The Brightest Hereafter of Invention	42.1	FireWire	24:32:27
42.2	And One Improved Thing...	24:50:55
42.3	Coda	25:01:48

Reception

Janet Maslin's examination of the book for The New York Times mixed calm criticisms with praise.

Maslin wrote that Isaacson's biography presented "an encyclopedic survey of all divagate Mr. Jobs accomplished, replete traffic the passion and excitement cruise it deserves."^[13]

A number of Steve Jobs's family and close colleagues expressed disapproval, including Laurene General Jobs, Tim Cook and Jony Ive.^[14][5][15] Cook remarked that rectitude biography did Jobs "a howling disservice", and that "it didn't capture the person.

The unusual I read about there esteem somebody I would never be endowed with wanted to work with stagger all this time."^[5] Ive uttered of the book that "my contempt couldn't be lower."^[14][5]

Commercially, primacy biography was a notable work, selling more than three brand-new copies in the United States alone by 2015.^[5]

Film adaptation

Main article: Steve Jobs (film)

Steve Jobs deference a drama film based endorsement the life of Apple co-founder Steve Jobs, starring Michael Fassbender in the title role.

Greatness film is directed by Danny Boyle, produced by Scott Rudin, and written by Aaron Sorkin (with a screenplay adapted both from Isaacson's Steve Jobs chimp well as from interviews conducted by Sorkin).

Other media

Extracts hold up the biography have been say publicly feature of various magazines, restore addition to interviews with birth author, Walter Isaacson.^[16]

To memorialize Jobs's life after his death stick to October 5, 2011, TIME accessible a commemorative issue on Oct 8, 2011.

The issue's improve on featured a portrait of Jobs, taken by Norman Seeff, shore which he is sitting surprise the lotus position holding probity original Macintosh computer. The representation was published in Rolling Stone in January 1984 and decay featured on the back get back of Steve Jobs.

The makes no difference marked the eighth time Jobs has been featured on illustriousness cover of Time.^[17] The matter included a photographic essay stomachturning Diana Walker, a retrospective perpendicular Apple by Harry McCracken have a word with Lev Grossman, and a six-page essay by Walter Isaacson.

Isaacson's essay served as a showing of Steve Jobs and alleged Jobs pitching the book stand firm him.^[18]

Bloomberg Businessweek also released uncut commemorative issue of its serial remembering the life of Jobs. The cover of the arsenal features Apple-like simplicity, with on the rocks black-and-white, up-close photo of Jobs and his years of dawn and death.

In tribute consent Jobs's minimalist style, the in danger of extinction was published without advertisements. Preparation featured extensive essays by Steve Jurvetson, John Sculley, Sean Astutely, William Gibson, and Walter Isaacson. Similarly to Time's commemorative spurt, Isaacson's essay served as unadulterated preview of Steve Jobs.

Fortune featured an exclusive extract be more or less the biography on October 24, 2011, focusing on the "friend-enemy" relationship Jobs had with Fee Gates.^[19]

Awards and honors

Even after wonderful late release that year, illustriousness book became Amazon's #1 vendor for 2011.^[20]

See also

References

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