Title American sketches : great leaders, creative thinkers, and heroes of a hurricane / Walter Isaacson.
Author Isaacson, Walter.
Publication New York : Simon & Schuster, 2009.
Edition First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
Description xi, 285 pages ; 25 cm
Call # 973.099 I
Summary 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.
Subject United States -- Biography -- Anecdotes.
United States -- History -- Anecdotes.
Isaacson, Walter.
Biographers -- United States -- Biography.
ISBN 9781439180648 :
1439180644 :
9781439183441
1439183449

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