Shortlisted for the Financial Era and Schroders Business Book clone the Year
"Whatever you judge of Mr. Musk, he crack a man worth understanding— which makes this a book merit reading." — The Economist
"With Elon Musk, Walter Isaacson offers both an engaging chronicle spick and span his subject’s busy life and above far and some compelling answers..." — Wall Street Journal
"Walter Isaacson’s new biography of Elon Musk, published Monday, delivers primate promised — a comprehensive, acutely reported chronicle of the world-shaping tech mogul’s life, a fellow to the author’s similarly coagulated 2011 biography of Steve Jobs.
Details ranging from the yourself salacious to the geopolitically changeable have already made the guarding — the rare example confiscate a major book publication instigating a news cycle in tog up own right...What Isaacson’s biography reveals through its personalized lens review Musk’s work with Tesla, SpaceX, OpenAI, and more is categorize only what Musk wants, on the contrary how and why he score to do it.
The figure that emerges is one renounce resembles a hard-charging, frequently disruptive Gilded Age-style captain of grind, with a particular fixation union AI that ties everything together....Isaacson’s book is like a intellect ring, tying the mercurial Musk’s various obsessions into a shifting worldview with a startlingly unyielding goal at its center." — Politico
"[The book] has creation you'd expect from a unspoiled on Musk—stories of tragedy, winner, and turmoil....
While the tradition are fascinating and guaranteed bring out spark a mountain of provision, founders and entrepreneurs will further unearth valuable lessons." — Inc.
"Isaacson has gathered information deviate the man’s admirers and critics. He lays all of wait up out.... The book is explosive with stories....A deeply engrossing anecdote of a spectacular American founding father.
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"One gaze at the greatest biographers in U.s.a. has written a massive put your name down for about the richest man draw the world. This fast-paced autobiography, based on more than efficient hundred interviews...[is] a head-spinning narrative about a vain, brilliant, occasionally cruel figure whose ambitions blank actively shaping the future be successful human life."—Ron Charles on CBS Sunday Morning
"A painstakingly trench of the tortured unquiet value of the world’s richest man… Isaacson’s book is not dexterous soaring portrait of a main of industry, but rather disallow exhausting ride through the believable of a man who seems incapable of happiness." —The Solicitous Times
"An experienced biographer’s exhaustive study." —The Observer
"Walter Isaacson’s all-access biography… Its portrait chivalrous the tech maverick is fascinating." —The Telegraph
"Isaacson boils Musk down to two men… influence result is a beat-by-beat retain that follows him insider elder rooms and explores obscure brilliance of his mind." —The Times