Bibliograph

American sketches, great leaders, creative thinkers, and heroes of a hurricane, Walter Isaacson

Type

Label

American sketches, great leaders, creative thinkers, and heroes of a hurricane, Walter Isaacson

Language

eng

resource.biographical

contains biographical information

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

American sketches

Oclc number

429024755

Responsibility statement

Walter Isaacson

Sub title

great leaders, creative thinkers, and heroes of a hurricane

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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