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...
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Author: Walter Isaacson
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American Sketches: Great Leaders, Creative Thinkers, and Heroes of a Hurricane by Isaacson, Walter

American Sketches: Great Leaders, Creative Thinkers, and Heroes of a Hurricane

€23,81

American Sketches: Great Leaders, Creative Thinkers, and Heroes of a Hurricane

€23,81
Author: Walter Isaacson
Format: Paperback
Language: English
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.

Author: Walter Isaacson
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Published: 11/02/2010
Pages: 304
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.87lbs
Size: 8.96h x 6.10w x 0.80d
ISBN: 9781439183441

About the Author
Walter Isaacson, a professor of history at Tulane, has been CEO of the Aspen Institute, chair of CNN, and editor of Time. He is the author of Leonardo da Vinci; The Innovators; Steve Jobs; Einstein: His Life and Universe; Benjamin Franklin: An American Life; and Kissinger: A Biography, and the coauthor of The Wise Men: Six Friends and the World They Made. Visit him at Isaacson.Tulane.edu.

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