American Sketches: Great Leaders, Creative Thinkers, and Heroes [FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING]

Isaacson, Walter

Verlag: Simon & Schuster, New York, 2009

As new condition dark blue boards with a black spine and gold spine lettering contained in a fine condition non price-clipped color photographic dust jacket. Includes List of Other Books by Walter Isaacson; Author Dedication; Introduction: My So-Called Writing Life; Epilogue: The Future Restored; Acknowledgments; and About the Author. A bit of the lower page edge has a remainder mark. (see photographs). "What are the roots of creativity? What makes for great leadership? How do influential people end up rippling the surface of history? In this collection of essays, Walter Isaacson reflects on the lessons to be learned from Benjamin Franklin, Albert Einstein, Bill Gates, Henry Kissinger, Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev, Hillary Clinton and Bill Clinton, and various other interesting characters he has chronicled as a biographer and journalist. The people he writes about have an awesome intelligence, in most cases, but that is not the secret of their success. They had qualities that were even more rare, such as imagination and true curiosity. Isaacson reflects on how he became a writer, the lessons he learned from various people he met, and the challenges he sees for journalism in the digital age. He also offers loving tributes to his hometown of New Orleans, which both before and after Hurricane Katrina offered many of the ingredients for a creative culture, and to the Louisiana novelist Walker Percy, who was an early mentor. In an anecdotal and personal way, Isaacson describes the joys of the "so-called writing life" and the way that tales about the lives of fascinating people can enlighten our own lives." - from the inner front jacket flap. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 004808

Bibliografische Details

Titel: American Sketches: Great Leaders, Creative ...
Verlag: Simon & Schuster, New York
Erscheinungsdatum: 2009
Einband: Hardcover
Zustand: As New
Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Fine
Auflage: 1st Edition