Elon Musk /
As a kid in South Africa, Musk was regularly beaten by bullies. He once was in the hospital for a week after a beating. But the physical scars were minor compared to the emotional ones inflicted by his father, an engineer, rogue and charismatic fantasist. Musk developed into a man-child, with an exc...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Simon & Schuster,
[2023].
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| Summary: | As a kid in South Africa, Musk was regularly beaten by bullies. He once was in the hospital for a week after a beating. But the physical scars were minor compared to the emotional ones inflicted by his father, an engineer, rogue and charismatic fantasist. Musk developed into a 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. In 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 was secretly buying up shares of Twitter. Now he had a chance to own the playground. Isaacson fills in the tales of triumphs and turmoil, addressing the question are the demons that drive Musk also what it takes to drive innovation and progress? |
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| Item Description: | Illustrations on endpapers. |
| Physical Description: | xiii, 670 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781982181284 1982181281 |