American Sketches: Great Leaders, Creative Thinkers, and Heroes of a Hurricane
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| Rating | : | 4.12 (527 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B002YJZEI8 |
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| Number of Pages | : | 593 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-02-04 |
| Language | : | English |
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Observations on Leadership and Creativity Walter Isaacson is a gifted writer with an excellent worldview. His biographies of Franklin and Einstein are among my favorite books.This book is a collection of first rate essays and articles covering an array of American political and creative leaders as well as some thoug. Weak Anomaly for a normally reliable biographer I love Walter Isaacson, but this is basically an anthology of his news articles in papers and in Time. The stories are interesting, but there's a lot of content covered in Isaacson's excellent biographies. In these pieces, I didn't appreciate the writing style. And the commo. Five Stars Dan Raven thank you
By the author of the bestselling biographies of Albert Einstein and Benjamin Franklin, a reflection on: What are the roots of creativity? What makes for great leadership?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, Mikhail Gorbachev, Hillary Clinton, Bill Clinton, and various other larger-than-life characters he has chronicled as a biographer and a journalist.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 offers living 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.
. Walter Isaacson, the CEO of the Aspen Institute, has been chairman of CNN and the managing editor of Time magazine. He is the author of Steve Jobs; Einstein: His Life and Universe; Benjamin Franklin: An American Life and Kissinger: A Biography. He lives in Washington, D.C., with his wife and daughter
. From Publishers Weekly Conventional wisdom is stoutly defended in this staid collection of essays, mostly culled from the author's newspaper and magazine articles. Isaacson (Einstein) has a knack for finding the middle ground and the incontestable truism in any topic. A piece on Time cofounder Henry Luce extols “common sense†over “knee-jerk ideological faiths.†(The one extremist the author wholeheartedly supports is Albert Einstein, a “rebel†against received notions o