American sketches : great leaders, creative thinkers, and heroes of a hurricane
(2009)

Nonfiction

Book

Call Numbers:
973.099/ISAACSON,W

Availability

Locations Call Number Status
Adult Nonfiction 973.099/ISAACSON,W Available

Details

PUBLISHED
New York : Simon & Schuster, 2009
EDITION
First Simon and Schuster hardcover edition
DESCRIPTION

xi, 285 pages ; 25 cm

ISBN/ISSN
9781439180648, 1439180644, 9781439183441, 1439183449
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES

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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