#3 in Business
Steve Jobs
- 665
- Pages
- about 12 h
- Reading time
- NYT bestseller · 45 weeks on the list, peaked at #1
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Our view
Isaacson’s authorised biography is thorough and even-handed: it admires what Jobs built without softening the personality behind it. Some readers find the early years the richest part and the rest, from the first iPod onward, hurried: closer to a list of product launches, with little technical or design detail. At 665 pages it best suits readers curious about the man rather than the machines.
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About the book
Steve Jobs is the authorized self-titled biography of American business magnate and Apple co-founder Steve Jobs. The book was written at the request of Jobs by Walter Isaacson, a former executive at CNN and Time who had previously written best-selling biographies of Benjamin Franklin and Albert Einstein.
Where the score comes from
The sources average 8.4 across 1,531 ratings. With that many, the reader vote carries 91% of the weight and the score stays at 8.4 — the Business average of 7.9 barely moves it.
| Source | Average | Ratings | Weight |
|---|---|---|---|
| Open Library | 8.4 | 172 | 11% |
| Hardcover | 8.4 | 1.4K | 89% |
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It has 665 pages — longer than 98% of the ranked books in Business.
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