Walter Isaacson

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Walter Isaacson (2012)

Walter Isaacson (born May 20, 1952 in New Orleans ) is an American writer and biographer . He is the President and CEO of the Aspen Institute . Isaacson was Chairman and CEO of CNN and Chief of Service at Time . He was appointed Chairman of the Broadcasting Board of Governors by President Obama in 2009 . Isaacson resigned from this position in January 2012 to pursue a new book project.

The biography Steve Jobs , written by Isaacson, was a bestseller on Amazon even before it was published. Isaacson interviewed Jobs more than 40 times in 2 years, most recently before and after his resignation as CEO of Apple, and also spoke to members of his family, friends, colleagues from Apple and business competitors.

Isaacson was elected a member of the American Philosophical Society in 2005 and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2016.

In his biography of Leonardo da Vinci, Isaacson found “the long outdated conception of the universal genius ”, criticized the FAZ reviewer. "With the enthusiasm of a layman, Isaacson [...] succumbs to the Leonardo myth and indulges in an almost unrestrained cult of genius ". In the “downright embarrassing” section “Learning from Leonardo” he made “Leonardo a Californian yoga teacher.”

Fonts (selection)

  • Kissinger: A Biography (1992)
  • Benjamin Franklin. American Life. New York et al. a. 2003, ISBN 0-684-80761-0 .
  • Albert Einstein. Einstein: His Life and Universe . ISBN 3-7658-1852-6 .
  • Steve Jobs. Simon & Schuster, ISBN 978-1-4516-4853-9
  • The Innovators: How a Group of Inventors, Hackers, Geniuses, and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution . Simon & Schuster, 2014. ISBN 978-1-4767-0869-0
  • Leonardo Da Vinci . Simon & Schuster, 2017. ISBN 9781501139154
    • Leonardo da Vinci. The biography . Translated from the English by Karin Schuler and Andreas Thomsen. Berlin 2018.

Web links

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ USA: International Broadcasting Must Save $ 30 Million. In: epd media. March 9, 2012, accessed November 22, 2018 .
  2. ↑ Julie Moos: Jobs asked Isaacson to write bio in 2004 because 'I wanted my kids to know me'. In: Poynter. October 6, 2011, accessed November 22, 2018 .
  3. ^ Member History: Walter Isaacson. American Philosophical Society, accessed October 10, 2018 (English, with a short biography).
  4. ^ American Academy of Arts and Sciences : Newly Elected Fellows. In: amacad.org. Retrieved April 22, 2016 .
  5. ↑ Benjamin Paul: A money sack must be enough for Judas, in: FAZ No. 286, December 8, 2018, p. 12.
  6. ↑ Benjamin Paul: A money sack must be enough for Judas, in: FAZ No. 286, December 8, 2018, p. 12.
personal data
SURNAME Isaacson, Walter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American writer
DATE OF BIRTH May 20, 1952
PLACE OF BIRTH New Orleans