Name: american sketches,great leaders, creative thinkers, and heroes of a hurricane
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Author: Walter Isaacson
ISBN: 9781439183441

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Type

Physical Book

Author

Walter Isaacson

Publisher

Simon & Schuster

Year

2010

Language

English

Pages

304

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

22.8 x 15.5 x 2.0 cm

Weight

0.39 kg.

ISBN

1439183449

ISBN13

9781439183441

Synopsis "american sketches,great leaders, creative thinkers, and heroes of a hurricane"

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.

Walter Isaacson

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Walter Isaacson imparte clases de Historia en la Universidad de Tulane. Ha sido director del Instituto Aspen y de la CNN, así como de la revista Time.

Es autor de Einstein (Debate, 2014), Steve Jobs (Debate, 2011), Los innovadores (Debate, 2014), Leonardo da Vinci (Debate, 2018), Benjamin Franklin. An American Life (2003) y Kissinger. A Biography (1992), y coautor, con Evan Thomas, de The Wise Men. Six Friends and the World They Made (1986).

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