Dan Gillmor on Nostr: I'm a fan of Isaacson's biographies of people who died before he started his ...
I'm a fan of Isaacson's biographies of people who died before he started his research. I particularly liked his Benjamin Franklin book.
But his biography of Steve Jobs (and now Musk) betrays a central problem in the genre.
When immensely powerful people, about whom there is intensely curiosity among the general public, give one biographer uniquely close access, they are giving huge gifts -- sometimes worth millions of dollars -- to the biographers.
But his biography of Steve Jobs (and now Musk) betrays a central problem in the genre.
When immensely powerful people, about whom there is intensely curiosity among the general public, give one biographer uniquely close access, they are giving huge gifts -- sometimes worth millions of dollars -- to the biographers.