Steve Jobs

Jobs asked Isaacson to write this and then, unusually, exercised no control over it, sitting for more than forty interviews and encouraging friends and enemies to speak freely. The result is neither hagiography nor takedown: it shows the reality-distortion field, the cruelty to colleagues and the obsessive pursuit of simplicity as parts of the same person. Published weeks after his death, it became the definitive account of the man who built Apple.