American sketches : great leaders, creative thinkers, and heroes of a hurricane /
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...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Simon & Schuster,
[2009]
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| Edition: | 1st Simon & Schuster hardcover ed. |
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| Summary: | 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. Isaacson also describes the joys of the "so-called writing life" and the challenges he sees for journalism in the digital age. |
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| Physical Description: | xi, 285 pages ; 25 cm. |
| ISBN: | 9781439180648 1439180644 9781439183458 (ebk.) 1439183457 (ebk.) 1439183449 9781439183441 |