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- Book Synopsis
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SHORTLISTED FOR THE FINANCIAL TIMES BUSINESS BOOK OF THE YEAR
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CHOSEN AS A BOOK OF THE YEAR BY APPLE, AMAZON, THE TIMES AND
FINANCIAL TIMESEpic feats. Epic failures. An epic story.
Walter Isaacson charts Elon Musk’s journey from humble beginnings to one
of the wealthiest people on the planet – but is Musk a genius or a jerk?From the author of Steve Jobs and other bestselling biographies, this is the
astonishingly intimate story of Elon Musk, the most fascinating and controversial
innovator of our era – a rule-breaking visionary who helped to lead the world into the
era of electric vehicles, private space exploration and artificial intelligence. Oh, and
took over Twitter.When Elon Musk was a kid in South Africa, he was regularly beaten by bullies. One
day a group pushed him down some concrete steps and kicked him until his face
was a swollen ball of flesh. He was in the hospital for a week. But the physical scars
were minor compared to the emotional ones inflicted by his father, an engineer,
rogue and charismatic fantasist.His father’s impact on his psyche would linger. He developed into a tough yet
vulnerable man-child with an exceedingly high tolerance for risk, a craving for drama,
an epic sense of mission, and a maniacal intensity that was callous and at times
destructive.At the beginning of 2022 – after a year marked by SpaceX launching thirty-one
rockets into orbit, Tesla selling a million cars, and him becoming the richest man on
earth – Musk spoke ruefully about his compulsion to stir up dramas. ‘I need to shift
my mindset away from being in crisis mode, which it has been for about fourteen
years now, or arguably most of my life,’ he said.It was a wistful comment, not a New Year’s resolution. Even as he said it, he was
secretly buying up shares of Twitter, the world’s ultimate playground. Over the years,
whenever he was in a dark place, his mind went back to being bullied on the
playground. Now he had the chance to own the playground.For two years, Walter Isaacson had unprecedented access. He shadowed
Musk, attended his meetings, walked his factories with him and spent hours - About The Author
- Walter Isaacson, University Professor of History at Tulane, has been CEO of the Aspen Institute, chairman of CNN, and editor of Time magazine. 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 co-author of The Wise Men: Six Friends and the World They Made. He and his wife live in New Orleans. Facebook: Walter Isaacson, Twitter: @WalterIsaacson
- Product Details
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- ISBN
- 9781398527539
- Format
- Paperback
- Publisher
- Simon & Schuster UK Ltd., (13 February 2025)
- Number of Pages
- 688
- Language
- English
- Dimensions
- 20 mm
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